COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador

COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador
COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador
	Number of confirmed cases by department 1-24 cases confirmed 25-49 cases confirmed 50-99 cases confirmed 100-199 cases confirmed 200-499 cases confirmed 500-999 cases confirmed ≥1000 cases confirmed
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	El Salvador
First outbreak	Wuhan, China
Index case	Metapán, Santa Ana
Arrival date	18 March 2020; (4 years, 7 months and 6 days)
Confirmed cases	1,112
Active cases	687
Suspected cases‡	598
Critical cases	19
Recovered	405
Deaths	20
Government website
	Official Statistics - Government of El Salvador
	‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached El Salvador on 18 March 2020.^[3]

Numbers

As of 13 May 2020, El Salvador reported 1,112 cases, 20 deaths and 405 recoveries.^[4]

On 31 March 2020, the first COVID-19 death in El Salvador was confirmed.^[5]

Response

President Nayib Bukele banned public gathering of more than 500 people and shut down educational institutions on 17 March.^[6]^[7]

Arrests

El Salvador had arrested more people for violating the quarantine than it had diagnosed cases of COVID-19, a total of 2,424 people had been arrested for violating quarantine orders, and 48,913 people had been tested for the virus.^[2]

References

↑ "El Salvador registers 1st COVID-19 case". Xinhuanet. 19 March 2020. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 "Situación Nacional COVID-19". Gobierno de El Salvador. 29 March 2020. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
↑ Redacción (2020-03-20). "Nicaragua y El Salvador confirman los primeros casos del nuevo coronavirus". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-26.
↑ Sosa, Eduardo; Carranza, Enrique (28 March 2020). "A 24 sube la cifra de contagios por coronavirus en El Salvador". El Diario de Hoy. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
↑ "El Salvador registers country's first coronavirus death". National Post. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
↑ "National Quarantine in El Salvador to contain the spread of the COVID-19". JD Supra. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
↑ Delcid, Merlin (19 March 2020). "Investigan a infectóloga en El Salvador que burló cuarentena tras viaje a Alemania" [An infectologist in El Salvador who circumvented quarantine after a trip to Germany is investigated]. CNN en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 March 2020.

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[1] "El Salvador registers 1st COVID-19 case". Xinhuanet. 19 March 2020. Archived from the original on 20 March 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.

[Situación_Nacional_COVID-19-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 "Situación Nacional COVID-19". Gobierno de El Salvador. 29 March 2020. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

[3] Redacción (2020-03-20). "Nicaragua y El Salvador confirman los primeros casos del nuevo coronavirus". BBC News Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-03-26.

[4] Sosa, Eduardo; Carranza, Enrique (28 March 2020). "A 24 sube la cifra de contagios por coronavirus en El Salvador". El Diario de Hoy. Retrieved 31 March 2020.

[:1-5] "El Salvador registers country's first coronavirus death". National Post. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2020.

[6] "National Quarantine in El Salvador to contain the spread of the COVID-19". JD Supra. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.

[7] Delcid, Merlin (19 March 2020). "Investigan a infectóloga en El Salvador que burló cuarentena tras viaje a Alemania" [An infectologist in El Salvador who circumvented quarantine after a trip to Germany is investigated]. CNN en Español (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 March 2020.

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