COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS CoV-2 |
Location | Senegal |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Dakar |
Arrival date | 2 March 2020 (3 years, 11 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) |
Confirmed cases | 89,050[1] (updated 17 February 2024) |
Deaths | 1,971[1] (updated 17 February 2024) |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Senegal was a part of the 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 Senegal on March 2, 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.[2][3]
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003,[4][5] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.[6][4] Model-based simulations for Senegal suggest that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t exceeded 1.0 from November 2020 to January 2021.[7]
In Senegal, graffiti artists engage actively in the fight against the coronavirus, by creating murals relating to COVID-19 on city walls, to spread information and warn the population and also to support healthcare personnel confronting the disease.[68]