COVID-19 pandemic in Guinea

[2] On 12 January 2020, 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, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.

[7][5] Model-based simulations for Guinea suggest that the 95% confidence interval for the time-varying reproduction number R t has been lower than 1.0 since July 2021.

[17] Guinea received a small number of doses of the Sputnik V vaccine and became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to inoculate some of its high-level officials.

16,781 patients recovered in 2021 while 310 persons died, bringing the total death toll to 391.

[20] Samples taken between May and October showed that the rapidly spreading BA.5.2.1.7 variant was present in Guinea.