COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Haiti |
Index case | Port-au-Prince |
Arrival date | 19 March 2020 (4 years, 11 months and 5 days) |
Confirmed cases | 234 (as of 14 May)[1][2][3] |
Active cases | 199 (as of 14 May) [2] |
Suspected cases‡ | 1,408 (as of 14 May) [2] |
Recovered | 17 (as of 14 May) [1][2] |
Deaths | 18 (as of 14 May) [1][2] |
Government website | |
mspp.gouv.ht | |
‡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 Haiti in March 2020. As of 12 May 2020, there are 209 total confirmed cases, 176 active cases, 1,311 suspected cases, with 16 deaths and 17 recoveries.[4]
On 19 March, the first two COVID-19 cases in the country were confirmed.[5]
On 5 April, the country confirmed its first death from COVID-19.[6][7]
On 16 March, at midnight local time, Haiti's Prime Minister, Joseph Jouthe, announced a two-week suspension of flights from Europe, Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Latin America.[8]