COVID-19 pandemic in Guatemala | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Guatemala |
First outbreak | Wuhan, China |
Index case | Guatemala City |
Arrival date | 13 March 2020 (4 years, 5 months and 6 days) |
Confirmed cases | 142,064[1][2] |
Active cases | 9,491[1][2] |
Suspected cases‡ | 61,600 |
Recovered | 129,990[1][2] |
Deaths | 16,097[1][2] |
Fatality rate | 3.8% |
Government website | |
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‡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 in Guatemala was a part of the 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 Guatemala in March 2020.