page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Honduras on 10 March 2020, when two women tested positive for the disease after one of them landed on Toncontín International Airport in a flight from Madrid, Spain and the other on Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport in a flight from Geneva, Switzerland. As of 29 August 2020, there are 59,645 confirmed cases in the country, with the majority of cases located in Cortés and Francisco Morazán. Confirmed cases have been reported in all 18 departments of the country.
  Since then, the country has closed maritime, aerial, and land borders, suspended classes at all levels of education nationwide, ordered a nationwide curfew, and price freeze for basic food items and certain medical supplies and equipment.
context_section_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras is 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 first confirmed to have spread to Honduras on 10 March 2020, when two women tested positive for the disease after one of them landed on Toncontín International Airport in a flight from Madrid, Spain and the other on Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport in a flight from Geneva, Switzerland. As of 29 August 2020, there are 59,645 confirmed cases in the country, with the majority of cases located in Cortés and Francisco Morazán. Confirmed cases have been reported in all 18 departments of the country.
  Since then, the country has closed maritime, aerial, and land borders, suspended classes at all levels of education nationwide, ordered a nationwide curfew, and price freeze for basic food items and certain medical supplies and equipment.
caption: Map of departments with confirmed cases (as of 18 July 2020)
  
  
  
  
  
    
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