COVID-19 pandemic in South Ossetia | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | South Ossetia (Georgia) |
Index case | Tskhinvali |
Arrival date | 6 May 2020 (4 years, 3 months, 1 week and 6 days) |
Confirmed cases | 3,296 (as of 23 April 2021)[1] |
Active cases | 333 |
Recovered | 2,903 |
Deaths | 60 + |
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached South Ossetia[nb 1] in May 2020.
On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.[2][3]
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003,[4][5] but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.[6][4]
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