Sube et al.,

Abstract
Background: With global spread of COVID-19, countries began to develop scientific activities ranging from detection,
prevention and control measures to vaccine development. In order to develop sound strategies to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to conduct postmortem audit.

Objectives: The study is to determine the prevalence of COVID-19 related death in both Juba Military Referral Hospital and Juba Teaching Hospital.

Methods and materials: This is a retrospective post mortem audit study. Data related to corpses were collected from
registers of both JMRH and JTH from January to July 2020. Data was cleaned and entered in SPSS version 21 for statistical analysis and variables with p < 0.05 were considered statistically significant.

Results: Out of 201 corpses recorded between Jan-July, 72.6% were from JMRH, and 27.4% from JTH. Male were 76.6% and 23.4% female, Age range 21-100 years with mean of 61 years (SD+/- 17.73). Respiratory failure was the leading cause of death (26.9%) p=0.036. More than half of the corpses (52.7%) reported, died at hospital while 19.9%
community death, 27.4% had no place of death indicated p=001. Furthermore 39% of the corpses were of age group (61-80 years), while 38.7% of age group (41-60 Years) died due to respiratory failure p=0.001

Conclusion: This study revealed that higher COVID-19 related death more in males with respiratory failures.

Keywords: COVID-19 related death; Respiratory failure; Post-mortem audit; Mortuary; South Sudan.

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