COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Haiti in March 2020. As of 12 May 2020, there are 209 total confirmed cases, 176 active cases, 1,311 suspected cases, with 16 deaths and 17 recoveries.^[4]

COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Haiti
Index case	Port-au-Prince
Arrival date	19 March 2020 (5 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 2 days)
Confirmed cases	234 (as of 14 May)[1][2][3]
Active cases	199 (as of 14 May) [2]
Suspected cases‡	1,408 (as of 14 May) [2]
Recovered	17 (as of 14 May) [1][2]
Deaths	18 (as of 14 May) [1][2]
Government website
mspp.gouv.ht
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.

Cases

On 19 March, the first two COVID-19 cases in the country were confirmed.^[5]

On 5 April, the country confirmed its first death from COVID-19.^[6][7]

Response

On 16 March, at midnight local time, Haiti's Prime Minister, Joseph Jouthe, announced a two-week suspension of flights from Europe, Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Latin America.^[8]