COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador

COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador
Number of confirmed cases by department   1-24 cases confirmed   25-49 cases confirmed   50-99 cases confirmed   100-199 cases confirmed   200-499 cases confirmed   500-999 cases confirmed   ≥1000 cases confirmed
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	El Salvador
First outbreak	Wuhan, China
Index case	Metapán, Santa Ana[1]
Arrival date	18 March 2020 (5 years and 4 days)
Confirmed cases	1,112[2]
Active cases	687[2]
Suspected cases^‡	598[2]
Critical cases	19[2]
Recovered	405[2]
Deaths	20[2]
Government website
Official Statistics - Government of El Salvador
^‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached El Salvador on 18 March 2020.^[3]

Numbers

As of 13 May 2020, El Salvador reported 1,112 cases, 20 deaths and 405 recoveries.^[4]

On 31 March 2020, the first COVID-19 death in El Salvador was confirmed.^[5]

Response

President Nayib Bukele banned public gathering of more than 500 people and shut down educational institutions on 17 March.^[6][7]

Arrests

El Salvador had arrested more people for violating the quarantine than it had diagnosed cases of COVID-19, a total of 2,424 people had been arrested for violating quarantine orders, and 48,913 people had been tested for the virus.^[2]

References

1. "El Salvador registers 1st COVID-19 case". Xinhuanet. 19 March 2020. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
2. "Situación Nacional COVID-19". Gobierno de El Salvador. 29 March 2020. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
3. Redacción (2020-03-20). "Nicaragua y El Salvador confirman los primeros casos del nuevo coronavirus". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-26.
4. Sosa, Eduardo; Carranza, Enrique (28 March 2020). "A 24 sube la cifra de contagios por coronavirus en El Salvador". El Diario de Hoy. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
5. "El Salvador registers country's first coronavirus death". National Post. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
6. "National Quarantine in El Salvador to contain the spread of the COVID-19". JD Supra. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
7. Delcid, Merlin (19 March 2020). "Investigan a infectóloga en El Salvador que burló cuarentena tras viaje a Alemania" [An infectologist in El Salvador who circumvented quarantine after a trip to Germany is investigated]. CNN en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 March 2020.