Table 3.

Surveillance metrics for the week of September 9-15, 2020.

Country	Speed: daily positives per 100,000 (weekly average of new daily cases per 100,000), n	Acceleration: day-to-day change in the number of positives per day (weekly average per 100,000)	Jerk: week over week change in acceleration (per 100,000)	7-day persistence effect on speed (new cases per day per 100,000), n
Angola	0.24	0.04	0.02	4.32
Benin	0.07	0.00	0.00	0.97
Botswana	2.09	0.00	–0.54	5.71
Burkina Faso	0.19	0.01	0.01	1.36
Burundi	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.30
Cameroon	0.23	–0.11	–0.14	6.24
Cape Verde	13.09	0.60	0.65	6.11
Central African Republic	0.11	–0.02	–0.09	0.34
Chad	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.40
Comoros	0.18	0.10	0.08	0.41
Congo-Brazzaville (Republic of Congo)	0.11	0.00	0.68	12.97
Congo-Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)	0.02	–0.01	0.00	2.67
Cote d’Ivoire	0.18	–0.02	0.01	9.60
Equatorial Guinea	0.16	0.00	0.09	0.28
Eritrea	0.09	–0.03	–0.03	0.31
Eswatini (Swaziland)	2.79	0.05	0.07	4.07
Ethiopia	0.60	–0.06	0.01	106.34
Gabon	0.30	0.00	–0.03	1.07
Gambia	0.93	–0.33	–0.33	3.50
Ghana	0.30	–0.04	–0.08	7.85
Guinea	0.29	0.02	0.02	5.25
Guinea-Bissau	0.22	0.00	0.00	0.57
Kenya	0.26	–0.01	0.00	14.80
Lesotho	1.20	0.55	0.55	0.90
Liberia	0.05	0.02	0.02	0.09
Madagascar	0.19	–0.03	–0.01	6.80
Malawi	0.05	0.00	0.00	0.77
Mali	0.04	–0.01	0.01	1.49
Mauritania	0.49	0.08	0.09	1.28
Mauritius	0.05	–0.01	–0.01	0.07
Mozambique	0.50	0.07	0.02	8.64
Namibia	5.57	–0.20	–0.05	17.57
Niger	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.03
Nigeria	0.07	–0.01	–0.01	17.19
Rwanda	0.21	–0.01	0.02	4.22
Sao Tome and Principe	0.60	0.07	0.07	0.03
Senegal	0.43	0.17	0.17	5.53
Seychelles	0.44	0.00	0.00	0.01
Sierra Leone	0.11	0.01	0.01	0.51
Somalia	0.02	–0.01	–0.01	0.87
South Africa	2.70	–0.07	–0.10	173.18
South Sudan	0.05	0.00	–0.01	0.36
Sudan	0.03	0.00	–0.01	3.53
Tanzania	—a	—	—	—
Togo	0.14	–0.01	–0.01	1.38
Uganda	0.39	0.01	–0.02	12.27
Zambia	0.69	–0.01	–0.11	8.12
Zimbabwe	0.18	–0.04	0.40	11.79

^aTanzania does not report COVID-19 cases.