COVID-19 pandemic in Saint Pierre and Miquelon | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
Index case | Saint-Pierre |
Arrival date | 5 September 2021 (4 years, 9 months, 4 weeks and 2 days) |
Confirmed cases | 1,225 [1] |
Deaths | 2 |
Government website | |
http://www.saint-pierre-et-miquelon.gouv.fr/Publications/Coronavirus-Covid-19 |
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon on 5 April 2020. Earlier, ferry service [2] between Newfoundland and Saint Pierre and Miquelon had been suspended. Air and ferry service between the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon have been reduced. [3] The tourism sector is expected to be affected by the pandemic and related measures. [4] The collectivity was placed under lockdown on 17 March 2020. [5]
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. [6] [7]
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, [8] [9] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. [10] [8]
On 5 April, the first case was confirmed in the collectivity. [11]
On 25 April, the Overseas Minister announced a gradual deconfinement in Saint Pierre and Miquelon starting Monday 27 April. The majority of businesses were reopened except for bars and restaurants. Schools were reopened in the first week of May. Travel between the two islands resumed on 11 May. Restrictions on sports and gatherings remained in place and there has been review of the deconfinement every two weeks. [12]
On 4 May, it was reported that the more than 270 students stranded in metropolitan France and Canada would return to Saint Pierre and Miquelon from 12 May onward. They were quarantined for 14 days and tested. The students in metropolitan France were repatriated in two groups. [13]
In April 2021, restrictions to travel to both Metropolitan France and Canada remained in place. The islands had been declared Covid-free in February, and requested inclusion in Canada's Atlantic Bubble, although this was not successful. [14]
By the end of July a total of 3,083 cases had been confirmed. [1]
Saint Pierre and Miquelon, is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, located near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. An archipelago of eight islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon is a vestige of the once-vast territory of New France. Its residents are French citizens. The collectivity elects its own deputy to the National Assembly and participates in senatorial and presidential elections. It covers 242 km2 (93 sq mi) of land and had a population of 5,819 as of the January 2022 census.
Miquelon-Langlade is the larger but less populated of the two communes (municipalities) making up the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located 22 km (14 mi) to the south of Newfoundland in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It consists of three islands: Miquelon, Langlade and Le Cap, connected by narrow tombolos. The communal seat is the settlement of Miquelon, on the northern tip, where the entire island's permanent population of 596 is located. Miquelon Airport provides flights to Montreal and to nearby Saint-Pierre Airport.
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