COVID-19 pandemic in the British Indian Ocean Territory

COVID-19 pandemic in the British Indian Ocean Territory
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	British Indian Ocean Territory
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Arrival date	November 2020
Confirmed cases	5[1][2]
Suspected cases‡	0
Recovered	2
Deaths	0
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.

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The COVID-19 pandemic in the British Indian Ocean Territory 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 Diego Garcia of the British Indian Ocean Territory in November 2020.^[1][2]