The COVID-19 pandemic in the Central African Republic was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the Central African Republic in March 2020.
COVID-19 pandemic in the Central African Republic | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Central African Republic |
First outbreak | Wuhan, China |
Index case | Bangui |
Arrival date | 14 March 2020 (4 years, 1 month, 2 weeks and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 15,440 (updated 29 April 2024) |
Deaths | 113 (updated 29 April 2024) |
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.
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. Model-based simulation for the Central African Republic indicates that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t exceeded 1.0 between November 2020 and March 2021.
There are only three ventilators in the entire country.
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