| COVID-19 pandemic in Guadeloupe | |
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| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Guadeloupe |
| Arrival date | 13 March 2020 (4 years, 2 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) |
| Confirmed cases | 203,235[1] |
| Recovered | 201,148[2] |
Deaths | 1,021[1] |
| Fatality rate | 0.56% |
| Government website | |
| https://www.guadeloupe.ars.sante.fr/ | |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Guadeloupe was a part of the ongoing global viral pandemicofcoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which was confirmed to have spread to the French overseas department and regionofGuadeloupe on 12 March 2020.
On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.[3][4]
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003,[5][6] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.[7][5]
On 12 March, the first case of COVID-19 in Guadeloupe was confirmed.[8]
As of 16 March, there had been 6 positive cases and no deaths.[9] By 26 March, there had been 84 positive cases and 1 death.[10]
On 21 August, Valérie Denux, director of the Regional Health Agency of Guadeloupe (ARS), announced the archipelago alert threshold was crossed, with an incidence rate of 86.23, per 100,000 inhabitants; doubling in the previous week. A scheduled meeting was scheduled to take place on 25 August, to announce monitoring activity by the COVID-19 committee as well as plans by local authorities on educational institution reopening plans.[11]
| New daily cases of Covid-19 declared in Guadeloupe | 0 | |
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