… Last case recorded in August 25, 2022
MBABANE- Eswatini has seen five months of a breather since March 2020.
The last COVID-19 death in the country was recorded on August 25 last year- awarding the country about five months of not enduring any COVID-19-related death.
This was discovered in an analytic study by the Eswatini Positive News (EPN) news desk, where weekly and daily COVID-19 reports were under scrutiny.
The study revealed that there has been a fluctuation of infections, however, there have been no deaths.
Also, COVID-19 cases showed to have significantly went down since last year December.
The hive of activity that comes with the month of December did not have negative impacts on COVID-19 statistics.
In the past two years, the country saw a drastic increase in daily COVID-19 cases during the festive season but the year 2022 is proving to be different.
As the country entered the festive season, COVID-19 daily infections went down drastically. In the past three weeks, daily infections were cut down by over half.
In the past week, there 13 total infections of COVID-19, meaning there were about two infections per day.
In the beginning of November, 2022 there was an average of 80 to 90 infections per week, meaning an average of 12 infections per week.
Since the emergence of COVID-19 in March 2020, the country has experienced escalating and de-escalating COVID-19 deaths, however, it has not seen zero deaths in the past two years.
Efforts to reach the Minister of Health Lizzie Nkosi proved to be futile by the time this report was being compiled at 4 pm.
However, the minister announced that they were de-escalating COVID-19 response.
As part of the de-escalation towards COVID-19 response, the Ministry of Health has launched a weekly COVID-19 Statement.
Worth noting is that since the emergence of the first case of COVID-19 in the country, the said ministry has been publishing daily COVID-19 statements
The Ministry of Health published their first weekly COVID-19 statement yesterday. The last daily COVID-19 statement was published on September 3, 2022.
The de-escalation of COVID-19 regulations in the country also included the removal of producing negative COVID-19 PCR results and COVID-19 vaccination certificates at the border.
