COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritania
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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mauritania in March 2020.
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Cases
On 13 March, the first case was confirmed, with the case being placed in isolation.[2]
On 18 March, the Mauritanian Minister of Health announced the discovery of a second positive coronavirus case on a foreign female employee, working at a house of a couple of expatriates, the woman arrived 10 days prior the discovery.[3]
A third coronavirus case was declared on March 26 for a 74-year-old man, a Mauritanian citizen who had arrived in Mauritania on March 15 from France via Air France.[4]
The country recorded its first death on 30 March 2020.[5]
On 18 April, the last remaining active case recovered. On that date, there had been 7 confirmed cases in the country, 6 of whom had recovered, and one died making Mauritania temporarily one of few affected countries in the world to become free of COVID-19.[6]
On 29 April, a Senegalese citizen tested positive. The case is a 68-year women living in the state of Nouakchott.[7]
As of 4 August, there have been 6,418 confirmed cases in Mauritania. 5,209 of these have since recovered and 157 people have died.[8]
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