Somalia: COVID-19 Impact Update No. 15 (December 2020)

Highlights

• The cumulative positivity rate since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Somalia has declined gradually to 7 per cent while the cumulative case fatality rate stands at 2.6 per cent. Nearly 4,580 cases have been confirmed.

• During the reporting period, confirmed cases increased in Somaliland and Puntland. WHO continues to support four biosafety level 2 PCR testing laboratories located in Mogadishu, Hargeysa and Garowe.

• Some 51 out of Somalia’s 118 districts (43 per cent) are considered priority districts, and were visited by community surveillance teams in November 2020 for active case searching, contact tracing and awareness raising.

• Responses to COVID-19 continue to be scaled up; community rapid response teams reached 2,0433,57 individuals in 9,840 settlements with COVID-19 preventative messages in November, including 43,225 in IDP settlements