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8:12 p.m.
Sunday 11 October 2020
Report – Maha Salah El-Din:
The countries of East Africa are the least affected by the epidemic of “Covid-19”, according to the figures of the Arab ministries of health, because these five countries in which resides 38% of the population of the Arab world have recorded 7% of Arab infections, 8 months after the discovery of the first Corona virus infection in the region at the end of last January.
Egypt tops the list of East African countries, which includes four other countries, namely< Soudan, Somalie, Djibouti et Comores >>. The five countries recorded 127,489 injured out of one million and 797,000 injured in Arab countries.
While these countries recorded 22% of deaths due to infection with the Coronavirus out of the total victims in the Arab world; As he announced 7 thousand and 20 dead of 31 thousand and 452 victims in 22 Arab countries.
In this report, Masrawy traces – through data analysis and interactive maps – how “Corona” transmitted the Arab countries of East Africa, and the extent of the damage to the five Arab countries that are in this region, according to the tracked figures. by Johns Hopkins University of America.
The first infection by “Corona” appeared in mid-February in Egypt, the first Arab country in East Africa where the epidemic appeared. It was about a foreign engineer coming from abroad to work on an oil exploration site in the desert of the governorate of Matrouh, at that time, the site was completely isolated, but the cases of infection started. by one it increases in separate areas, until 45 injured are discovered on a cruise ship in Luxor, and it has become difficult to track and monitor cases.
After more than eight months, 127,489 citizens have been infected in Arab countries located in East Africa, 89% of them have recovered, 6% of them remain active cases under the influence of the disease , while 5% died after being infected with Corona.
Most countries in East Africa have not paid attention to the number of critical cases, with Egypt only recording 41 cases, and that number did not occur a month ago, this which represents a negligible percentage of total injuries.
Egypt – which is ranked sixth in the Arab world – recorded 82% of injuries in East Africa with 104,000 and 156 injuries, and the remaining 18% were spread across the rest of the five countries, and the lowest of them came to the Comoros, which recorded 495 injuries, last Friday morning.
Most deaths in “East Africa” were in Egypt at 85.7% of total Arab deaths, as well as recoveries at 86.2%, but most active cases were in Sudan with 82, 7%, and the Comoros topped the index of injuries, deaths and healings, with rates below 1%.
Reading the daily epidemic curves helps to track the rate of rise and fall of the epidemic and its history in each country, and shows the jumps and peak of the epidemic, allowing us to know and follow the life cycle of the pandemic over the past eight months in Arab countries located in East Africa.
Egypt..
Injuries gradually appeared in Egypt in limited numbers and closed between late February and late March, until they saw the first sudden rise, with the number of injured reaching 206 on April 5, and the second jump. occurred on the 28th of the same month, where the number of recorded cases doubled to 463 cases. Today, the daily number of injuries continued to double in this way until June 20, when Egypt reached the highest daily infection rates with 1,774 cases, then the index started to decline. until now.
Sudan.
The first injury was recorded on March 29, and the curve jumped on May 3 to 150 injuries in one day, and the number of injuries doubled to 410 cases on May 22, and then the curve started to decrease until it reached the highest rate in June. 17, registering 520 cases in one day, and to return again to its lowest level so far.
Djibouti.
The first corona case was recorded on March 19, and the daily injury curve in Djibouti saw the first jump on April 17, in which the number of injuries reached 156 cases in one day and the highest rate of injuries. daily reached 310 cases, then the curve has steadily declined to date.
Somalia..
March 17 was the recording date of Somalia’s first corona infection case, and daily injuries witnessed the first jump after nearly a month, particularly on April 21, when 73 cases were recorded in one day, and the curve began to steepen until May 29, then began to drop to its lowest level. Until mid-August, the curve doubled again, reaching its highest level on October 4, after Somalia recorded 152 injuries in one day.
Comoros ..
It was the last Arab country to record corona cases in the Arab world, as it recorded the first case on May 2, and witnessed the first jump in the number of injuries on May 20, with 23 cases recorded, and the curve peaked on May 23 with 44 cases and then the curve has started to decline almost evenly so far.
Injuries … and tests … and population
While the injury curve has gone proportionally to the population of each country, Egypt, which has the largest proportion of the population in East African countries, reaching 62%, had the largest number of injuries in the region, while the Comoros bottom of the list in terms of population And the number of injured too.
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