COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Algeria |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Blida, Algeria |
Arrival date | 17 February 2020 (4 years, 6 months, 1 week and 4 days) |
Confirmed cases | 272,139 [1] |
Recovered | 264,971 (updated 23 July 2023) [2] |
Deaths | 6,881 [1] |
Fatality rate | 2.53% |
Vaccinations | |
Government website | |
http://covid19.sante.gov.dz/carte/ https://dz-covid19.com/ http://covid19.cipalgerie.com/en/ https://corona-dz.live/ https://covid19.cdta.dz/ |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria 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 virus was confirmed to have spread to Algeria in February 2020. [3] In response, the Algerian government ordered curfews, restricted gatherings, canceled public events, and issued stay-at-home orders between February and June. Some measures were re-implemented in later months in response to new waves of infections. A mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 began in January 2021. [4] The pandemic disrupted anti-government protests, which largely halted in 2020 and resumed in 2021. [5] [6] 6,881 deaths were officially recorded by the Algerian government through 2022, [7] although the World Health Organization estimated over 21,000 deaths had occurred through 2021. [8]
On 12 January, 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, who had initially come to the attention of the WHO on 31 December 2019. [9] [10] Unlike SARS of 2003, the case fatality ratio for COVID-19 [11] [12] was much lower, but the transmission was significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. [13] [11] Algerians living in Wuhan were repatriated in early February. [14] On February 12, the Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform announced it was preparing a new emergency plan for handling an outbreak of the virus. [15]
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