COVID-19 pandemic in the British Indian Ocean Territory | |
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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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COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies |
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(Part of the global COVID-19 pandemic) |
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]