COVID-19 pandemic in Mali | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Mali |
First outbreak | Wuhan, China |
Index case | Bamako, Kayes |
Arrival date | 25 March 2020 (4 years, 8 months and 1 week) |
Confirmed cases | 2,543 (as of 2 August)[1] |
Recovered | 1,946 (as of 2 August)[1] |
Deaths | 124 (as of 27 July)[1] |
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Mali in March 2020.
On 25 March, Mali confirmed its first two COVID-19 cases.[2]
On 27 March, 7 new positive tests for Coronavirus: Mali rose to 11 cases. [3]
On 28 March, seven new cases confirmed, the total rose to 18.[4]
On 31 March, 25 cases tested positive and 2 deaths. According to health authorities.[5]
On 18 March, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita suspended flights from affected countries, closed schools and banned large public gatherings.[6] However planned elections in March–April, which had already been postponed several times for the poor security situation in the country, will still go ahead as planned.[7]