Since March 2020, Eswatini, a landlocked country with a population of 1.1 million has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across all the 4 regions of the country . To date, the number of confirmed cases reported has risen to 9 482 with 216 deaths giving case fatality rate of 2.3%. The country is experiencing rapid rise in the number of cases and deaths for the past 3 weeks. The daily number of positive cases is above 160 compared to less than 20 a month ago.
