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MINISTRY OF PLANNING, INVESTMENT AND

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT as of 9 June 2020 Directorate of National Statistics COVID-19 cases: 2409

Deaths: 85 Recoveries: 486

MINISTRY OF PLANNING, INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Directorate of National Statistics

CORONOVIRUS (COVID-19) Update

Reported period 26th May – 9th June, 2020

Key Summary Indicators

Somalia is the third highest Horn of ’s impacted nations of COVID-19 There are 2409 confirmed cases in Somalia

with 85 deaths and 486 recoveries 56% of the confirmed COVID 19 cases in the Hotline Numbers for COVID-19 country are in Benadir Regional Administration

Please call if you are in: 72% of the confirmed COVID 19 cases are males, and 28% are females

Galmudug: 449 :988 COVID-19 has claimed the lives of 4 persons : 466 : 343 for every 100 confirmed cases in Somalia Southwest:449 Benadir: 449

Ministry of Planning, Investment and Economic Development Directorate of National Statistics

FIGURE 1: COVID -19 EVENTS

Number of confirmed cases, NUMBER OF CONFIRMED CASES , ACTIVES CASES, RECOVERIES,

Actives cases, Recoveries, AND DEATHS IN SOMALIA and Deaths in Somalia 2409 As of 9 June 2020, the 1838 number of confirmed cases are 2409 with 486 recoveries and 85 deaths. In addition, the active cases are 1838 as shown in Figure1. 486 85

Confirmed Cases Active Cases R e co ve ri e s De at h s

Percentage Distribution of COVID 19 Confirmed Hiirshabelle Cases by State Jubaland 4% 7% Approximately 56 percent of the confirmed COVID- South West 19 cases in the country are in Benadir Region 5% whereas the remaining 44 percent are from Somaliland (19), Puntland (8), Jubaland (7), South Figure 2: Percentage distribution of West (5), Galmudug (4) and Hiirshabelle State (1) as confirmed cases by State shown in (Figure 2). Somaliland 19% Benadir Benadir COVID-19 cases remains the highest 56% although there was a little decrease from 65 percent last update to 56 percent. However the percentage Puntland confirmed cases in Somaliland has increases from 12 percent last update to 19 percent. 8%

Comparison of confirmed cases by States

The number of confirmed cases in Benadir has decreased by 10 percent from 26th May to 9th June 2020, while Somaliland confirmed cases have increased by 6 percent. There were minimal changes for the rest of States as shown in Figure 3

Figure 3: Comparison of confirmed cases by States 26 May - 9 June 2020 70.0 65.6 56.0 60.0 50.0 40.0 30.0 19.3 20.0 12.7 9.4 8.1 5.1 4.9 5.8 6.5 4.2 10.0 0.5 1.0 0.8 0.0 Benadir Puntland Somaliland South West Jubaland Hiirshabelle Galmudug

26-May 9-Jun

Sex Distribution of COVID- Figure 4: Sex Distribution of COVID-19 Confirmed 19 Confirmed Cases Cases

Figure 4 shows that majority Female of confirmed cases are males 28% (1734) constituting 72%.

Since the first COVID-19

confirmed case, males are the highest compared to the Male females. 72%

Comparison of Somalia with its Neighboring

Countries FIGURE 5: COVID-19 EVENTS COMPARISON OF SOMALIA WITH ITS NEIGHBORING

Figure 5 shows that has reported the COUNTRIES highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases (4278) followed by (2862) whereas the 27 least confirmed COVID-19 cases was reported by 379 Ethiopia (2156). 2156 85 SOMALIA 486 Somalia was ranked the third among its 2409 neighboring countries (2409). On the other 85 KENYA 873 hand, It has been observed that Somalia and 2862

Kenya has the highest number of deaths (85, 31 DJIBOUTI 2139 each) whereas the lowest number of deaths was 4278 in Ethiopia (27 deaths). Deaths Recoveries Total cases

Case Fatality Rates of the COVID-19 pandemic Figure 6: Case Fatality Rates Of COVID -19

The Case Fatality Rate (CFR) is the ratio between confirmed deaths and confirmed cases.

Based on the comparison of CFR in Somalia and its neighboring countries, Somalia reported highest at 3.5% deaths per 100 confirmed cases 3.5% 3.0% followed by Kenya 3% while Djibouti was the lowest only 0.7% per 100 confirmed cases as 1.3% shown in Figure 6. 0.7%

As of June 9, 2020, almost 4 persons die in every 100 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Somalia. Somalia Kenya Ethiopia Djibouti

Figure 7: Trend of confirmed COVID-19 Cases by State 300 Banadir Somaliland 250 244 Puntland 234 Jubaland

South West 200 200

Galmudug 172 Hirshabelle 150 147 143 129 117 100 82 78 66 70 54 52 50 50 46 51 35 38 34 20 22 25 27 23 19 19 15 12 9 8 11 11 0 3 23 325 13 4 2 1 7 04/13 04/20 04/27 05/04 05/11 05/18 05/25 06/01 06/08

Figure 7 illustrates information on the trend of weekly confirmed COVID19 cases by Federal Member States, Somaliland and Benadir Regional Administration. Overall, Benadir region has declined drastically from early May to the last week of May (from 244 to 66 cases per week) and slightly increased again to 143 on the second week of June, while Somaliland cases increased throughout May and thereafter dropped from 129 cases per week to 117 cases per week on first week of June. There were no Significant changes for the rest of the states.

Figure 8 shows changes in the Figure 8: COVID-19 case trends in Somalia number of weekly covid19 cases in Somalia. 366 It has been observed a sharp 345 333 increase in the number of 327

confirmed cases from 13th th 276 April to 18 May 2020 and it peaked at 366 cases per week. 243 234 Thereafter, it has dropped to 234 cases on the last week of 177 May, however, the cases increased again to 345 per

week on 8th June 2020.

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References:

JHU. (2020, June 8). Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved from Mortality Analyses : https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

MOH. (2020, June 8. Ministry of Health and Social Care of the Federal Republic of Somalia . Retrieved from COVID-19 Situation Briefings: https://moh.nomadilab.org/