20.03.2021

Summary Libya in the last few months ...

It has been quiet on our website lately, today there is a summary from the last few months.

On March 24, 2020, a returnees from Saudi Arabia confirmed the first suspicion of a corona infection in Libya.
By the end of April, only 312 corona tests had been conducted across the country due to a lack of test kits.
According to the NCDC, there were more than 101,746 confirmed infections and 1,487 deaths by the end of 2020, with infections reported from all provinces.
According to the Johns Hopkins University Global Health Security Index, Libya is one of the world's worst prepared countries for the pandemic (168th place out of 195) ...
The war has left its mark, the health system across the country has been unable to maintain basic services for years. In the war for Tripoli, hospitals and medical facilities were attacked at least 15 times, some of which were badly damaged.
In 2020, half of the medical facilities opened in the country in 2019 were closed, with rural regions being particularly hard hit. There is a lack of supplies, equipment or staff to care for Covid patients and to maintain routine health services. Hospitals across the country regularly suspend operations due to high infection rates among employees and patients, due to a lack of material or large-scale power outages.

As of today, 330 days after the first corona case became known, there are 150,341 confirmed corona cases and 2,487 deaths.

Even if the fighting is now taking place far away from the capital, at the beginning of the pandemic the picture was different, with at least 700,000 internally displaced persons in Libya. The virus is also spreading unchecked among migrants. Of 422 rescued migrants who took colleagues in a rescue ship, 49 tested positive. The situation in the numerous illegal migrant camps is unmanageable. Although around 80,000 migrants left Libya at the beginning of the pandemic, IOM is assuming a further 636,000 migrants in the country, unfortunately  we have to assume that there are significantly more, as they are constantly flowing in and that to this day, despite the war, despite the pandemic , there will never be exact figures.

Many partner organizations left the country at the beginning of the Tripoli War.



I have a coronadeath in close family circle, my sister died a few weeks ago, she leaves behind 8 children and her husband who survived the disease. She left a void that nothing and nobody can fill, but i still have to try, every day anew ... I have to be there for 8 children more ... for a lifetime.

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