COVID-19 pandemic in Chad
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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Chad in March 2020.
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COVID-19 pandemic in Chad | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Chad |
Index case | N’Djamena |
Arrival date | 19 March 2020 (4 years, 2 months and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 372 (as of 13 May)[1][2] |
Active cases | 252 (as of 13 May)[1] |
Recovered | 78 (as of 13 May)[1] |
Deaths | 42 (as of 13 May)[1] |
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On 19 March, Chadian authorities reported their first case, a Moroccan passenger who flew from Douala.[3]
On 26 March, with three cases already reported, Chadian authorities reported two additional positive cases. The cases were a 48-year-old Chadian and a 55-year-old Cameroonian passenger on a 17 March Ethiopian Airlines flight from Dubai and Brussels, respectively, through Addis Ababa.
On 30 March, two more cases of COVID-19 were reported, a Chadian citizen from Douala and a Swiss citizen from Brussels.[4]
On 6 April, Chad recorded its first case of local contamination, a 31-year-old Chadian who was in contact with another Chadian who had diagnosed positive.[5]