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e-IDSR Weekly Epidemiological Bulletin: Epi-Week 5 (30 Jan - 5 Feb, 2023)

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Key Highlights during this Epi-week 5

  1. 74% (222 out of 301) of health facilities submitted their weekly surveillance summary reports. This rate is same to epi week 4’s rate of 74%. This is below the expected completeness rate of 80%.

  2. Completeness of reporting is the highest in Galmudug state (98%) whereas the lowest report rate in this week is in the Banadir Regional Administration (BRA) (47%) – The Completeness rates are the number of expected facilities reporting to e-IDSR Weekly report and actual report we received in this week. While in Puntland State has not reported in week 50 to the DHIS2.

  3. Suspected cases were reported for Cholera (672), Adverse events following immunization (1), AFP (1),
    Acute Jaundice Syndrome (3), Cluster of unwell people/animals with similar signs symptoms (3), Dysentery (437), COVID-19 (12), Measles (271), Meningitis (6), Whooping Cough (151), SARI (2833), Typhoid (422), Diphtheria (4), Human rabies (4), Yellow fever (5), Leprosy (1) and Neonatal Tetanus (4).

  4. Currently, there are three confirmed disease (Cholera, Covid19 and Measles) outbreak and in this regard all the suspected and confirmed cases were reported the below administrative regions: Cholera (Bakool,
    Bay, Banadir, Galgaduud, Gedo, Hiiraan, Lower Juba, Lower Shabelle, Middle Shabelle and Mudug Regions), COVID-19 (Banadir, Hiiraan, Bakool and Gedo regions) and Measles (Bakool, Bay, Banadir, Galgaduud, Gedo, Hiiraan, Mudug, Lower Juba, Lower Shabelle and Middle Shabelle regions)

  5. The public health national referral laboratory reported a twelve (12) positive Rota virus cases, cholera (1), measles (36), Influenza A (0), Dengue (1) and COVID-19 (2).

  6. The reported cases of Acute Jaundice Syndrome, Dysentery, Meningitis, whooping cough, Neonatal tetanus, Diphtheria, Human rabies, Typhoid, Leprosy and Yellow fever were not investigated