COVID-19 pandemic in Niger | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Niger |
First outbreak | Wuhan, China |
Index case | Niamey |
Arrival date | 19 March 2020 (4 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) |
Confirmed cases | 9,931 |
Active cases | 729 |
Deaths | 315[1] (updated 5 July 2024) |
Fatality rate | 3.17% |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Niger is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Niger in March 2020. Amnesty International reported that journalists have been arrested over reporting about the pandemic.[2]
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]