COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria

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 (4 years, 10 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Confirmed cases	272,189[1]
Recovered	264,736[2]
Deaths	6,881[1]
Vaccinations	7,840,131[1] (updated 30 Dec) (total vaccinated) 6,481,186[1] (updated 30 Dec) (fully vaccinated) 15,267,442[1] (updated 30 Dec) (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/

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

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]

References

1. Ritchie, Hannah; Mathieu, Edouard; Rodés-Guirao, Lucas; Appel, Cameron; Giattino, Charlie; Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Hasell, Joe; Macdonald, Bobbie; Beltekian, Diana; Dattani, Saloni; Roser, Max (2020–2023). "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)". Our World in Data. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
2. "COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer". Retrieved 2023-04-25.
3. "Algerian health minister confirms first COVID-19 case". 25 February 2020. Archived from the original on 17 March 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
4. "ترحيل المواطن الايطالي المصاب بكورونا" (in Arabic). February 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-03-10. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
5. "Algeria confirms two more coronavirus cases". 2 March 2020. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
6. "Coronavirus : premier décès en Algérie, deux nouvelles wilayas touchées". TSA (in French). 12 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
7. "Urgent | Coronavirus en Algérie : Deuxième décès en Algérie - Algérie360.com". www.algerie360.com (in French). 12 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
8. "إرتفاع عدد الوفيات المصابين بفيروس كورونا إلى إثنين". النهار أونلاين (in Arabic). 12 March 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
9. "Algeria". www.worldometers.info. Retrieved 1 July 2020.