2020 in Eritrea

Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Eritrea

• March 21 –The first case of COVID-19 in the country was confirmed in Asmara; the index case was an Eritrean national arriving from Norway.^[1][2][3]
• November 15 – Diplomats say that rockets fired from Tigray Region, Ethiopia, landed near the airport in Asmara.^[4]
• December 4 – Twenty-eight Jehovah's Witnesses are released after being imprisoned for five 26 years. Twenty-four other members of the sect remain in prison.^[5]

• May 13 – Afwerki Abraha, chemist, freedom fighter, diplomat; died of COVID-19 in the UK (b. 1949)^[6]