COVID-19 pandemic in Mayotte | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Mayotte |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China via France |
Arrival date | 13 March 2020 (5 years, 4 months and 6 days) |
Confirmed cases | 42,004 [1] |
Recovered | 41,816 [1] |
Deaths | 188 [1] |
Government website | |
mayotte.gouv.fr |
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the French overseas department and region of Mayotte on 10 March 2020. On 31 March, the first person died of COVID-19. [2] In late April, the virus was out of control, and actively circulating on the island. [3] On 16 August, Mayotte has been green listed. [4]
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. [5] [6]
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, [7] [8] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. [9] [7]
There were 5,890 reported cases and 55 deaths in 2020. [95] 236 of the cases could be linked to clusters inside the Majicavo prison, 47 to a cluster in a municipality in northern Mayotte and 52 to a cluster at the Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte. [96]
A study of the spread from March 2020 to March 2021 across Mayotte shows that up to 2000 cases could be linked to 185 identified infection clusters (99 in companies; 31 in associations; 23 in family settings; 14 in health or social establishments; 9 in schools or universities; 4 in connection with events; 3 in prison; one each in a military regiment and one on board an aircraft). [96]
The first case of the 501.V2 variant was confirmed on 15 January. Mayotte's vaccination campaign started on 25 January. By the end of the month, 78 cases of 501.V2 had been identified. The first case of the B.1.1.7 variant was confirmed the last week of January. [97]
Of Mayotte's inhabitants aged 15 years or more, 71% were found to have antibodies to COVID-19 in 2021. [98]
There were 17,797 reported cases and 130 deaths in 2021, bringing the total number of reported cases to 23,687 and the death toll to 185. [99] 71 of the cases could be linked to clusters inside the Majicavo prison. [96]
There were 18,306 reported cases and two deaths in 2022, bringing the total number of reported cases to 41,993 and the death toll to 187.
There were 34 reported cases and one death in 2023, bringing the total number of reported cases to 42,027 and the death toll to 188.
Chronology of the number of active cases
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Recoveries are no longer listed as of 21 August 2020
Source: Point de situation at mayotte.gouv.fr Archived 24 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine