COVID-19 pandemic in Nicaragua | |
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Disease | COVID-19 |
Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
Location | Nicaragua |
Arrival date | 18 March 2020 (4 years, 5 months and 2 weeks) |
Confirmed cases | 16,185[1] |
Recovered | 15,399[2] |
Deaths | 245[1] |
Government website | |
https://www.el19digital.com/Coronavirus |
The COVID-19 pandemic in Nicaragua 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 shown to have spread to Nicaragua when the first case, a Nicaraguan citizen who had returned to the country from Panama, was confirmed on 18 March 2020.[3]
According to official figures from the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health,[4] after the first case was reported on 18 March 2020, very few cases were detected for the following 8 weeks until a significant increase in the number of cases began in May 2020.
Subsequently, from around mid-July 2020 the rate of new cases rapidly decreased, and as of January 2021, the country as a whole is showing one of the lowest number of cases in Latin America.[5]
However, opposition leaders have criticized the government's approach to controlling the pandemic,[6][7] and an organisation called Citizens Observatory[8][non-primary source needed] has stated that the figures are significantly higher, particularly the number of deaths.
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