COVID-19 pandemic in Burundi | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Burundi |
First outbreak | Wuhan, China |
Index case | Bujumbura |
Arrival date | 25 March 2020 (4 years, 4 months, 2 weeks and 4 days) |
Confirmed cases | 54,569[1] (updated 17 August 2024) |
Recovered | 42,532 (estimated) [2] |
Deaths | 15[1] (updated 17 August 2024) |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Burundi is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Burundi on 25 March 2020.[3]