COVID-19 pandemic in Dominica
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Dominica on 22 March 2020.Background
On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization 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.
The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.Timeline
- On 22 March, the country's first case of COVID-19 was announced, a 54-year-old man who returned from the United Kingdom.
- By 25 May 2020, Dominica had had 16 cases of COVID-19, and all of them had recovered.
- A month later, Dominica had 18 overall cases of COVID-19, all of them cured.
