Epidemic
details of ongoing viral pandemic in Mauritania
The COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritania 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 COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mauritania in March 2020.
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Mauritania 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 COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mauritania in March 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.
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. Model-based simulations for Mauritania indicate that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t has been lower than 1.0 since December 2020.
There were 14,364 confirmed cases in 2020. 11,678 patients recovered while 349 persons died. At the end of 2020 there were 2,637 active cases.
Vaccinations started on 26 March, initially using 50,000 doses of the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine and 5,000 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United Arab Emirates.
There were 27,109 confirmed cases in 2021, bringing the total number of cases to 41,473. 27,497 patients recovered in 2021 while 517 persons died, bringing the total death toll to 866. At the end of 2021 there were 1,432 active cases.
Modelling by WHO's Regional Office for Africa suggests that due to under-reporting, the true number of infections by the end of 2021 was around 2.1 million while the true number of COVID-19 deaths was around 1083.
On 4 January, it was confirmed that President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani had tested positive for COVID-19.
There were 21,952 confirmed cases in 2022, bringing the total number of cases to 63,425. 131 persons died, bringing the total death toll to 997.
There were 373 new cases in 2023, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 63,798. The death toll remained unchanged.
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