COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras

COVID-19 pandemic in Honduras
Map of departments with confirmed cases (as of 05 May)    None    1–9    10–49    50–99    100-499    500–999    1,000+
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	Honduras
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China
Index case	Toncontín International Airport, Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazan Ramón Villeda Morales Airport, San Pedro Sula, Cortes
Arrival date	10 March 2020 (4 years, 6 months and 1 day)
Confirmed cases	2,255
Suspected cases‡	1,000+
Recovered	237
Deaths	123
Government website
Estadística Nacional de Coronavirus
‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to Honduras on 10 March 2020.

Cases

The first case of COVID-19 was when two women tested positive for the disease after one of them landed on Toncontin International Airport in a flight from Madrid, Spain and the other on Ramón Villeda Morales Airport in a flight from Geneva, Switzerland.

As of 7 May 2020, there are 1,685 confirmed cases in the country, 1211 in the Cortes Department, 259 in the Francisco Morazan Department, 56 in the Yoro Department, 47 in the Atlantida Department, and 42 in the Colon Department; 105 people have died and 154 have recovered from the virus and its complications.

Confirmed cases have been reported in 16 of the country's 18 departments.

Response

Since then, the country closed all of its borders. They suspended classes at all levels of education nationwide, ordered a nationwide curfew, and price freezes for basic food items and certain medical supplies and equipment. This was done to stop prices from going up due to panic buying.