COVID-19 pandemic in Mayotte

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the French overseas department and region of Mayotte on 10 March 2020.

[2] In late April, the virus was out of control, and actively circulating on the island.

[4] 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.

[95] A study of the spread from March 2020 to March 2021 across Mayotte shows that up to 2000 cases could be linked to 185 identified infection clusters (99 in companies; 31 in associations; 23 in family settings; 14 in health or social establishments; 9 in schools or universities; 4 in connection with events; 3 in prison; one each in a military regiment and one on board an aircraft).

Chronology of the number of active cases Recoveries are no longer listed as of 21 August 2020 Source: Point de situation at mayotte.gouv.fr Archived 24 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine