COVID-19 — Cameroon’s Health and Economy

with more to come and, potentially, worse as things unfold over the course of the global pandemic. Cameroon has been doing very well compared to most countries and appears to be dealing functionally with its health impacts. Although, the country is not unscathed.

COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization: The current situation for Cameroonians regarding the pandemic is 21,160 confirmed cases, 420 confirmed deaths, out of a population of 23,439,000, which comes to 797 cases per 100,000 people. Cameroon’s first detected case occurred on January 2nd, 2020. All of these data points come circa October 9th, 2020. In terms of the number of confirmed cases in Cameroon, this number has been increasing since around the end of March and the beginning of April, while slowly stopping its progression.

Based on the world statistics from the World Health Organization, there have been 36,754,395 confirmed cases in all regions of the world of COVID-19 with 1,064,838 deaths as of October 9th, 2020, at 3:40 pm CEST. Cameroon’s new case loads have been declining, though several hundred Cameroonians have been confirmed dead from the novel coronavirus. All of these statistics from the World Health Organization point to the impacts on wellbeing and, ultimately, the loss of lives from the virus.