COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria

[3] In response, the Algerian government ordered curfews, restricted gatherings, canceled public events, and issued stay-at-home orders between February and June.

[4] The pandemic disrupted anti-government protests, which largely halted in 2020 and resumed in 2021.

[8] On 12 January, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, who had initially come to the attention of the WHO on 31 December 2019.

[13][11] Algerians living in Wuhan were repatriated in early February.

[14] On February 12, the Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform announced it was preparing a new emergency plan for handling an outbreak of the virus.

Number of cases (blue) and number of deaths (red) on a logarithmic scale . The evolution is atypical inasmuch as the two lines are not parallel, denoting an important regime change, which can be caused by an excess of deaths or an underestimation of cases before April, compared to what is observed after. For reference, the brown line is the number of deaths minus 370, value for which the trend is parallel to the number of cases (meaning the death toll is proportional to the number of cases).