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COVID-19 pandemic in Burkina Faso | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Burkina Faso |
First outbreak | Wuhan, China |
Index case | Ouagadougou |
Arrival date | 9 March 2020 (4 years, 3 months, 1 week and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 22,128 [1] (updated 17 June 2024) |
Deaths | 400 [1] (updated 17 June 2024) |
Government website | |
https://www.sante.gov.bf/ |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Burkina Faso was a part of the ongoing 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 reached Burkina Faso on 9 March 2020. The death of Rose Marie Compaoré, a member of the National Assembly of Burkina Faso, on 18 March marked the first recorded fatality due to COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa. [2] [3]
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. [4] [5] The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, [6] [7] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. [8] [6] Model-based simulations for Burkina Faso indicate that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t fluctuated around 1 in 2021 before rising to around 2 in 2022. [9]
Water shortages are a particular challenge in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso's coronavirus curfew stopped those in poor areas from accessing communal fountains that only flow at night in the dry season. [10] A lack of water also makes washing hands and general hygiene difficult. In the past year, armed groups have devastated villages in the north and east of Burkina Faso, leaving more than 800,000 people displaced. They have fled to urban centers or sites designated for internally displaced people (IDPs), where overcrowding and lack of access to water are huge problems for families and host communities. Hygiene measures, such as frequent hand washing with soap and water, wearing a mask, and social distancing don't translate into reality for displaced people. [11] In June 2020, slam poet Malika Ouattara focussed the work of her charity, the Slamazone Foundation to promote good hygiene in the face of the pandemic. [12]
Approximately 350,000 people in Burkina Faso urgently need access to sufficient water and shelter facilities to aid them in coping desert-like conditions faced in the isolated parts of Burkina Faso. The UN Refugee Agency warned of more lives to possibly fall at risk in the Burkina Faso Centre Nord and Sahel regions. These places have been pointed out as they shelter hundreds of people displaced from their homes, including small children. [13]
There were 6,631 confirmed cases in 2020. 4,978 patients recovered while 84 persons died. At the end of 2020 there were 1,569 active cases. [39]
There were 11,001 confirmed cases in 2021, bringing the total number of cases to 17,632. 11,641 patients recovered in 2021 while 234 persons died, bringing the total death toll to 318. At the end of 2021 there were 695 active cases. [40]
Burkina Faso's first two cases of the omicron variant were confirmed on 17 December. [41]
Modeling carried out by the WHO’s Regional Office for Africa suggests that due to under-reporting, the true cumulative number of infections by the end of 2021 was around 9.2 million while the true number of COVID-19 deaths was around 6,750. [42]
There were 4,374 confirmed cases in 2022, bringing the total number of cases to 22,006. 4,977 patients recovered in 2022 while 77 persons died, bringing the total death toll to 395. At the end of 2022 there were 15 active cases. [43]
There were 103 confirmed cases in 2023, bringing the total number of cases to 22,109. Five patients died in 2023, bringing the total death toll to 400. At the end of 2023 there were 113 active cases.
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