COVID-19 pandemic in Chad
| COVID-19 pandemic in Chad | |
|---|---|
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Chad |
| Index case | N’Djamena |
| Arrival date | 19 March 2020 (4 years and 9 months) |
| Confirmed cases | 372 (as of 13 May)[1][2] |
| Active cases | 252 (as of 13 May)[1] |
| Recovered | 78 (as of 13 May)[1] |
Deaths | 42 (as of 13 May)[1] |
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Chad in March 2020.
On 19 March, Chadian authorities reported their first case, a Moroccan passenger who flew from Douala.[3]
On 26 March, with three cases already reported, Chadian authorities reported two additional positive cases. The cases were a 48-year-old Chadian and a 55-year-old Cameroonian passenger on a 17 March Ethiopian Airlines flight from Dubai and Brussels, respectively, through Addis Ababa.
On 30 March, two more cases of COVID-19 were reported, a Chadian citizen from Douala and a Swiss citizen from Brussels.[4]
On 6 April, Chad recorded its first case of local contamination, a 31-year-old Chadian who was in contact with another Chadian who had diagnosed positive.[5]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Coronavirus in Africa tracker". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ↑ "Ministère de la Santé Publique du Tchad". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ↑ "Chad confirms first case of coronavirus: government statement". Reuters. 19 March 2020. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ↑ Alwihda, Info. "Tchad - COVID-19 : un tchadien et un suisse testés positifs". Alwihda Info - Actualités TCHAD, Afrique, International (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-09.
- ↑ "Covid-19 : les autorités sanitaires confirment le 10e cas". Journal du Tchad (in French). Archived from the original on 2020-04-11. Retrieved 2020-04-11.