COVID-19 pandemic in Sudan | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Sudan |
First outbreak | Wuhan, Hubei, China |
Index case | Khartoum |
Arrival date | 13 March 2020 (4 years, 8 months and 1 week) |
Confirmed cases | 1,111 (as of 8 May)[1] |
Active cases | 950 (as of 8 May) |
Recovered | 102 (as of 9 May) |
Deaths | 59 (as of 9 May) |
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Sudan in March 2020.[2]
On 13 March 2020, Sudan reported its first COVID-19 case in Khartoum, a man who died on 12 March 2020 and had visited the United Arab Emirates in the first week of March.[3]
Sudan stopped issuing visas for, and flights to, eight countries, including Italy and neighboring Egypt, over fears of the coronavirus outbreak.[4]