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(). The virus was confirmed to have reached Ivory Coast in March 2020. __TOC__

Background

On 12 January 2020, the

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confirmed that a

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was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in

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City,

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Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019. The

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for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll. Côte d'Ivoire's census, planned for April 2020, may be delayed, given government containment and restrictions on internal travel. Tablets from China were delayed beyond the expected delivery in January.

Timeline

2020

On 11 March, Ivory Coast recorded its first case of COVID-19 with an Ivorian returning from

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. The patient was being treated at the Treichville University Hospital in

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and recovered five days later. Several people who were in contact with the infected person have been identified and are subject to a "follow-up", as according to the Minister of Health. The public has been assured to "keep calm" and "respect preventive measures being enforced". A free emergency number has been set up in the Ivory Coast (143 or 101) to alert people of suspected cases. Several border controls have also been set up to try and limit the spread. On 12 March, the individual who tested positive the day before also infected his wife. As a result, the total number of cases rose to 2. On 27 March, 5 new cases were confirmed bringing the total over the 100 benchmark with a total of 101 cases along with 2 patients recovering thus bringing the total of recovered to 3. A 58-year-old female patient with diabetes, in a coma since 25 March, became the first fatality. On 23 April, the total number of confirmed cases crossed 1000, rising to 1004, up by 52 from the day before, while the number of recovered patients rose to 359. On 3 July, there were 252 new cases and 66 recoveries, bringing the total number of confirmed cases over 10,000 to 10,244 and the total number of recovered patients to 4726. The death toll rose to 70. On 30 July, the death toll rose to 100. The National Security Council decided to extend the state of emergency until the end of August but to allow bars, nightclubs, cinemas and other entertainment venues to restart operations from 31 July 2020 as long as social distancing is maintained. Model-based simulations for Côte d'Ivoire point to a 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number ''R_t'' which exceeded 1.0 from November 2020 to January 2021.''Future scenarios of the healthcare burden of COVID-19 in low- or middle-income countries'',

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. At the end of the year there had been 22490 confirmed cases, 21934 recoveries and 137 deaths. Modelling by WHO's Regional Office for Africa suggests that due to under-reporting, the true number of infections in 2020 was around 6.5 million while the true number of COVID-19 deaths in 2020 was around 925.

2021

The United States Delivers COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to Côte d'Ivoire (51393634051)

On 6 January, through the

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pillar, the government ordered 200,000 doses of the

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, with a view to commencing mass vaccination on 15 February 2021. Mass vaccination started on 1 March, initially with 504,000 doses of

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's Covishield vaccine provided through

and 50,000 doses donated by

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. On 30 July there were 93 new cases, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 50,004. Model-based simulations for Côte d'Ivoire point to a 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number ''R_t'' above 1 during the second half of 2021. There were 48514 confirmed cases, 40064 recoveries and 577 deaths in 2021. At the end of the year there had been 71004 confirmed cases, 61998 recoveries and 714 deaths. By the end of 2021, 20% of the targeted population had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Modelling by WHO's Regional Office for Africa suggests that due to under-reporting, the true cumulative number of infections by the end of 2021 was around 11.8 million while the true number of COVID-19 deaths was around 4953.

2022

The presence of the

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was confirmed on 4 January. There were 16937 confirmed cases, 25101 recoveries and 117 deaths in 2022. By the end of the year there had been 87941 confirmed cases, 87099 recoveries and 831 deaths.

Statistics

Charts

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References

External links

Government of Cote D'Ivoire - COVID-19 PageAfrica Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dashboard on Covid-19 COVID-19 Africa Open Data Project DashboardWest African Health Organization COVID-19 DashboardWHO COVID-19 Dashboard
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