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• TITLE: Examining Factors Contributing to Eritrea’s Successful COVID-19 Response

  AUTHORS: Fikresus (Fikrejesus) Amahazion

  KEYWORDS: Africa, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Eritrea, Health

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.9 No.2, February 24, 2021

  ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of the greatest global crises in decades. To date, around the world tens of millions of cases have been confirmed, nearly two million people have died, and the livelihoods of billions have been greatly affected. While COVID-19 has been a truly global problem, infection and death rates in many African countries have been much lower than originally feared. One COVID-19 success story is Eritrea, a young, developing country in Northeast Africa that, by late December 2020, reported less than 1000 positive cases and one death due to COVID-19. However, despite its relative success, little focus has been devoted to Eritrea’s response. How did it manage to keep COVID-19 at bay and what factors contributed to its success? Based on several different research methods, the present study finds that, notwithstanding limited resources, Eritrea has managed to respond to COVID-19 with relative efficiency and keep the virus at bay. The country’s general success has been based upon a number of different factors.