{"title":"COVID-19: Why Algeria's Case Fatality Rate Seems to be Among the Highest in the World?","authors":"Mohamed Lounis","doi":"10.5152/eurasianjmed.2021.20192","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"From the first COVID-19 positive case reported on February 25, Algeria accounts 11,268 cases (June 16) at present. This number makes it the fifth most affected country in Africa after South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, and Ghana.1,2 However, it is ranked third in the number of deaths, with 799 cases translating to a fatality rate of 7.1 %, which is the 13th highest in the world after those reported in the most affected countries such as France (15.5%), United Kingdom (14.1%), Italy (14.5 %), and Spain (11.1 %).3 Furthermore, from April 12 to April 15, Algeria has shocked the world by reporting the highest fatality rate (number of deaths/number of affected cases) in the world (between 15.1% and 15. 8%).1","PeriodicalId":517142,"journal":{"name":"The Eurasian Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"160-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8184043/pdf/","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Eurasian Journal of Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5152/eurasianjmed.2021.20192","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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From the first COVID-19 positive case reported on February 25, Algeria accounts 11,268 cases (June 16) at present. This number makes it the fifth most affected country in Africa after South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, and Ghana.1,2 However, it is ranked third in the number of deaths, with 799 cases translating to a fatality rate of 7.1 %, which is the 13th highest in the world after those reported in the most affected countries such as France (15.5%), United Kingdom (14.1%), Italy (14.5 %), and Spain (11.1 %).3 Furthermore, from April 12 to April 15, Algeria has shocked the world by reporting the highest fatality rate (number of deaths/number of affected cases) in the world (between 15.1% and 15. 8%).1
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