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| COVID-19 pandemic in Crimea | |
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| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Crimea |
| Arrival date | 21 March 2020 (5 years, 6 months, 4 weeks and 1 day) |
| Confirmed cases | 16,314 |
| Recovered | 12,374 |
Deaths | 313 |
| Government website | |
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TheCOVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached theCrimea in March 2020. The Russian government includes cases in the Republic of Crimea in the count of cases in Russia.
On 12 January 2020, theWorld Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that anovel 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.[1][2]
Thecase fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower thanSARS of 2003,[3][4] but thetransmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.[5][3]
On 21 March, the first case was confirmed.[6]
As of May 11, the Russian head of Crimea reported 126 COVID-19 cases in the city of Sevastopol and 202 cases in the rest of the peninsula, for 328 cases in total.[7]
According to the Crimean Human Rights Group, on July 10, 2020, there were ten new cases in Crimea including Sevastopol. The total count during the pandemic was 1,089 with 37 deaths.[8]
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