COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritania

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mauritania in March 2020.

Cases
On 13 March, the first case was confirmed, with the case being placed in isolation.

On 18 March, the Mauritanian Minister of Health announced the discovery of a second positive coronavirus case on a foreign female employee, working at a house of a couple of expatriates, the woman arrived 10 days prior the discovery.

A third coronavirus case was declared on March 26 for a 74-year-old man, a Mauritanian citizen who had arrived in Mauritania on March 15 from France via  Air France.

The country recorded its first death on 30 March 2020.

On 18 April, the last remaining active case recovered. On that date, there had been 7 confirmed cases in the country, 6 of whom had recovered, and one died making Mauritania temporarily one of few affected countries in the world to become free of COVID-19.

On 29 April, a Senegalese citizen tested positive. The case is a 68-year women living in the state of Nouakchott.

As of 4 August, there have been 6,418 confirmed cases in Mauritania. 5,209 of these have since recovered and 157 people have died.

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