COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritania
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| 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Mauritania | |
|---|---|
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Mauritania |
| Index case | Nouakchott |
| Arrival date | 13 March 2020 (4 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 6 days) |
| Confirmed cases | 7[1] |
| Recovered | 6 |
Deaths | 1 |
| Government website | |
| http://cridem.org/C_Info.php?article=735075 | |
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mauritania in March 2020.
Background
On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.[2][3]
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003,[4][5] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.[6][4]
Timeline
On 13 March, the first case was confirmed, with the case being placed in isolation.[7]
The case is an expatriate from a yet to be disclosed country, in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott.[8] After test results came in positive, charter flights to France were cancelled.
On 18 March, the Mauritanian Minister of Health announced the discovery of a second positive coronavirus case on a foreign female employee, working at a house of a couple of expatriates, the woman arrived 10 days prior the discovery.[9]
A third coronavirus case was declared on March 26 for a 74-year-old man, a Mauritanian citizen who had arrived in Mauritania on March 15 from France via Air France.[10]
The country recorded its first death on 30 March 2020.[11]
An 18 April the last active case was recovered. As of 18 April 2020, there have been 7 confirmed cases in the country, 6 of whom have recovered, and one died making Mauritania the only affected country in the world to become free of COVID-19.[12]
References
- ^ "Coronavirus Update (Live): 780,997 Cases and 37,567 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Outbreak - Worldometer". www.worldometers.info. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ Elsevier. "Novel Coronavirus Information Center". Elsevier Connect. Archived from the original on 30 January 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ Reynolds, Matt (4 March 2020). "What is coronavirus and how close is it to becoming a pandemic?". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Archived from the original on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Crunching the numbers for coronavirus". Imperial News. Archived from the original on 19 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ "High consequence infectious diseases (HCID); Guidance and information about high consequence infectious diseases and their management in England". GOV.UK. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
- ^ "World Federation Of Societies of Anaesthesiologists – Coronavirus". www.wfsahq.org. Archived from the original on 12 March 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
- ^ "Mauritania confirms first coronavirus case". Channel News Asia. 14 March 2020. Archived from the original on 14 March 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
- ^ "Mauritania confirms first coronavirus case". National Post. Reuters. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
- ^ Médoune, SAMB (18 March 2020). "Coronavirus: Second case discovered in Mauritania". Panafrican News Agency. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
- ^ "تسجيل إصابة جديدة فيروس كورونا بموريتانيا". 26 March 2020.
- ^ "موريتانيا تعلن عن أول حالة وفاة بسبب "كورونا"". الأخبار: أول وكالة أنباء موريتانية مستقلة (in Arabic). 30 March 2020. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
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