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2020 coronavirus pandemic in Cape Verde | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Cape Verde |
Arrival date | 20 March 2020 (1 week and 6 days) |
Confirmed cases | 6[1] |
Recovered | 0 |
Deaths | 1 |
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Cape Verde in March 2020.
On 20 March, the first case of COVID-19 in the country was confirmed, being a 62 year old foreigner from the United Kingdom.[2][3]
Two more cases were confirmed the following day on 21 March. Both cases were tourists, one from the Netherlands, aged 60, and one from United Kingdom, aged 62. These two cases and the previous one were all on Boa Vista island before testing positive.[4] The first death was announced[5] on 24 March, regarding the first confirmed case in Cape Verde.
On 25 March, a fourth case was confirmed, a 43 years old national citizen who has returned from Europe, being the first case detected in the country's capital, Praia, on Santiago island.[6][7] On the following day, 26 March, Cape Verde's Health minister announced that the man's wife also tested positive, thus being the first reported local transmission.[8]
Since 16 March tests are being made in Cape Verde rather than abroad, by the Laboratório de Virologia de Cabo Verde, in Praia.[9]
On 17 March, as a contingency measure, Prime Minister José Ulisses Correia e Silva announced[10][11][12] the suspension of all incoming flights from the US, Brazil, Senegal, Nigeria, Portugal, and all European countries affected by the coronavirus. The suspension is active for three weeks. Exceptions are for cargo flights and flights for foreign citizens wishing to return home. The ban also applies to the docking of cruise ships, sailing ships and landing from passengers or crew from cargo ships or fishing ships. More exceptional measures[13] were taken the day after, and the contingency level was raised[14] on 27 March.
Cabo Verde Airlines had already taken the decision to suspend flights. Since 28 February the flights to Milan (Italy) are suspended. On 6 March, the flights to Lagos (Nigeria), Porto Alegre (Brazil) and Washington D.C. (United States) were also suspended. On 17 March, accordingly to the Government decision, Cabo Verde Airlines suspended all its other routes.[15]
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