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. 2023 Aug 17;11:1215620. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1215620

Table 2.

Total suspected and positive cases of COVID-19 by state and proportion positive by state and surveillance system, Somalia, 16 March 2020 to 31 March 2021.

State Total number of suspected cases Positive cases
Total Community-based surveillance Health-facility based surveillance Points-of-entry surveillance
n (% of suspected cases) n (%)a n (%)a n (%)a
Total 154,004 10,182 (6.6) 4,349 (42.7) 5,338 (52.4) 495 (4.9)
Banadir 82,897 1,945 (2.3) 798 (41.0) 1,136 (58.4) 11 (0.6)
Galmudug 2,233 535 (24.0) 201 (37.6) 334 (62.4) 0 (0.0)
Hirshabelle 502 180 (35.9) 64 (35.6) 116 (64.4) 0 (0.0)
Jubaland 2,752 845 (30.7) 841 (99.5) 4 (0.5) 0 (0.0)
Puntland 19,870 2,872 (14.5) 193 (6.7) 2,435 (84.8) 244 (8.5)
Somaliland 44,491 3,448 (7.7) 2,021 (58.6) 1,188 (34.5) 239 (6.9)
Southwest 1,259 357 (28.4) 231 (64.7) 125 (35.0) 1 (0.3)
a

Row percentage of total positive cases.

Comparison of proportion of positive cases by state and surveillance system, p < 0.001.