2020 coronavirus pandemic in San Marino

2020 coronavirus pandemic in San Marino

Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	San Marino
Arrival date	27 February 2020 (2 weeks and 6 days)
Origin	Italy
Confirmed cases	119
Recovered	4
Deaths	11

This article documents the impacts of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in San Marino.

With 119 confirmed cases out of a population of 33,344 as of 15 March 2020, the country has the highest per capita confirmed cases in the world (0.36%), almost as high as the infection rate in Wuhan at 0.4%.

Timeline

COVID-19 cases in San Marino  ()      Deaths        Recoveries        Active cases
Date			# of cases
2020-02-27		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	1(n.a.)
2020-02-28		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	2(+200%)
2020-02-29		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	3(+50%)
2020-03-01		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	8(+167%)
2020-03-02		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	9(+13%)
2020-03-03		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	11(+22%)
2020-03-04		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	16(+45%)
2020-03-05		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	22(+38%)
2020-03-06		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	24(+9%)
2020-03-07		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	27(+13%)
2020-03-08		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	37(+37%)
2020-03-09		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	51(+38%)
2020-03-10		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	62(+22%)
2020-03-11		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	69(+11%)
2020-03-12		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	72(+4%)
2020-03-13		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	80(+11%)
2020-03-14		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	101(+26%)
2020-03-15		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	109(+8%)
2020-03-16		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	115(+6%)
2020-03-17		​ ​ ​ ​ ​	119(+3%)
Sources: Press Office of Social Security Institute of San Marino (acronym ISS) provides daily update here Daily reports are issued in the morning, containing up-to-date data. Therefore the data here are shifted one day back.

On 27 February, San Marino confirmed its first case, an 88-year-old man with pre-existing medical conditions, who came from Italy. He was hospitalised at a hospital in Rimini, Italy.

On 1 March, 7 more cases were confirmed and the Health Emergency Coordination Group confirmed that the 88-year-old man had died, becoming the first Sammarinese to die of the virus. On 8 March, the number of confirmed cases had increased to 36. On 10 March, 63 cases were confirmed. On 11 March, 66 cases were confirmed, and the death count increased to 3. On 12 March, confirmed cases count increased to 67 and death count to 5. On 14 March, the Government ordered a nationwide quarantine until 6 April.