COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached El Salvador on 18 March 2020.[3]
| COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador | |
|---|---|
 Number of confirmed cases by department
1-24 cases confirmed 25-49 cases confirmed 50-99 cases confirmed 100-199 cases confirmed 200-499 cases confirmed 500-999 cases confirmed ≥1000 cases confirmed | |
| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Location | El Salvador |
| First outbreak | Wuhan, China |
| Index case | Metapán, Santa Ana[1] |
| Arrival date | 18 March 2020 (4 years, 5 months, 1 week and 3 days) |
| Confirmed cases | 1,112[2] |
| Active cases | 687[2] |
| Suspected cases‡ | 598[2] |
| Critical cases | 19[2] |
| Recovered | 405[2] |
Deaths | 20[2] |
| Government website | |
| Official Statistics - Government of El Salvador | |
| ‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed as being due to this strain by laboratory tests, although some other strains may have been ruled out. | |
Numbers
As of 13 May 2020, El Salvador reported 1,112 cases, 20 deaths and 405 recoveries.[4]
On 31 March 2020, the first COVID-19 death in El Salvador was confirmed.[5]
Response
President Nayib Bukele banned public gathering of more than 500 people and shut down educational institutions on 17 March.[6][7]
Arrests
El Salvador had arrested more people for violating the quarantine than it had diagnosed cases of COVID-19, a total of 2,424 people had been arrested for violating quarantine orders, and 48,913 people had been tested for the virus.[2]
References
- ↑ El Salvador registers 1st COVID-19 case. 19 March 2020. http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-03/19/c_138894937.htm. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Situación Nacional COVID-19. 29 March 2020. https://covid19.gob.sv/. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ↑ Redacción (2020-03-20). "Nicaragua y El Salvador confirman los primeros casos del nuevo coronavirus" (in es). BBC News Mundo. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-51956420. Retrieved 2020-03-26.
- ↑ Sosa, Eduardo; Carranza, Enrique (28 March 2020). "A 24 sube la cifra de contagios por coronavirus en El Salvador". El Diario de Hoy. https://www.elsalvador.com/noticias/nacional/covid-19-el-salvador-coronavirus-positivos/700739/2020/. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ↑ El Salvador registers country's first coronavirus death. 31 March 2020. https://nationalpost.com/pmn/health-pmn/el-salvador-registers-countrys-first-coronavirus-death. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ↑ "National Quarantine in El Salvador to contain the spread of the COVID-19". JD Supra. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
- ↑ Delcid, Merlin (19 March 2020). "Investigan a infectóloga en El Salvador que burló cuarentena tras viaje a Alemania" [An infectologist in El Salvador who circumvented quarantine after a trip to Germany is investigated]. CNN en Español (in español). Retrieved 20 March 2020.
