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2020 coronavirus pandemic in Chad | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Chad |
Index case | N’Djamena |
Arrival date | 19 March 2020 (2 weeks and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 7 |
Recovered | 0 |
Deaths | 0 |
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have reached Chad in March 2020.
On 19 March, Chadian authorities reported their first case, a Moroccan passenger who flew from Douala.[1]
On 26 March,three cases already reported, two other positive cases, It is a 48-year-old Chadian and a 55-year-old Cameroonian passenger on the Ethiopian Airlines flight of March 17, 2020 from Dubai and Brussels respectively via Addis Ababa. [2]
As a preventive measure, the government had cancelled all flights into the country, except for cargo flights.[3][4]