COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria

The Chinese pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Algeria in February 2020.

COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria
Confirmed cases by province   1000+ Confirmed cases   500-999 Confirmed cases   300-499 Confirmed cases   100-299 Confirmed cases   1-99 Confirmed cases
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Algeria
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Blida, Algeria
Arrival date	17 February 2020 (5 years, 6 months and 6 days)
Confirmed cases	272,370[1]
Recovered	264,736[2]
Deaths	6,881[1]
Vaccinations	7,840,131[1] (updated 21 Aug) (total vaccinated) 6,481,186[1] (updated 21 Aug) (fully vaccinated) 15,267,442[1] (updated 21 Aug) (doses administered)
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/

Cases

On 25 February, Algeria laboratory-confirmed its first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), an Italian man who arrived on 17 February.^[3] Algeria deported him back to Italy, via a special flight from Hassi Messaoud Airport where he was quarantined.^[4]

On 2 March, Algeria confirmed two new cases of SARS-CoV-2, a woman and her daughter, the health ministry said.^[5]

On 12 March, five new cases of COVID-19, including the first death, aged 78 and placed in isolation at Blida hospital. Two cases having stayed in France, one in the Souk-Ahras province, the other in the Tizi-Ouzou province and three in that of Blida province.^[6] the total number of confirmed cases is 26 adding a woman in of Skikda having stayed in France was announced.^[7][8] On the same day, schools were locked due to the coronavirus spread.

As of 1 July, there are 14,272 confirmed cases, 920 deaths, and 10,040 recoveries.^[9]