page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria
section_title: March 2020
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria / Chronology / March 2020
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Algeria in February 2020.
context_section_description: On 2 March, Algeria confirmed two new cases of SARS-CoV-2, a woman and her daughter, the health ministry said.
  On the afternoon of 3 March, Algeria reported another two new cases of SARS-CoV-2, which brought the total number of confirmed cases to five, a state news agency said quoting a statement from the health ministry. The statement added that the two new cases are from the same family, a father and daughter, and were living in France, adding that there's an investigation to determine the identities of the people who were in contact with them. The Ministry of Health announced on the evening of 3 March that three new cases of SARS-CoV-2 had been registered in Algeria, all from the same family, bringing the total number of cases to eight. On 4 March, the Ministry of Health recorded 4 new confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2, from the same family, bringing the total number of cases to 12.
  On 7 March, a 20th case, an Algerian who had stayed in Spain was announced.
  On 12 March, five new cases of COVID-19, including one death, aged 78 and placed in isolation at Blida hospital. Two cases having stayed in France, one in the Souk-Ahras province, the other in the Tizi-Ouzou province and three in that of Blida province. the total number of confirmed cases is 26 adding a woman in of Skikda having stayed in France was announced, and a send death coaged 55 is recorded without indication of the place of residence. On the same day, schools were locked due to the coronavirus spread.
  On 13 March, a new case confirmed in Algiers, a 36-year-old Algerian who stayed in France.
  On 14 March, the Algerian's Ministry of Health announced 10 new confirmed cases with the COVID-19 coronavirus and one death. This is the third death that resides in Blida. It is a 51-year-old woman from Blida. With this new case, the total number of cases registered in Algeria reached 37 confirmed cases and 3 deaths. The ministry also said 12 confirmed cases left containment after healing.
  On 15 March, The Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad said that "45 cases have been confirmed by the Pasteur Institute of Algeria ..." Eleven new cases of contamination with the coronavirus were confirmed, including one (1) death, a woman aged 84 years in of Blida, the total number of cases recorded in Algeria reached forty-eight (48) confirmed cases and four (4) deaths. In the evening, a new confirmed case was registered in the Adrar Province.
  On 16 March, six new confirmed cases of COVID-19, these are two cases in Algiers, one case in the Bouira Province, one case in the Bordj Bou Arréridj Province, one case in the Tizi Ouzou Province and a case in the Annaba Province.
  On 17 March, a fifth death was recorded in the Blida Province, a 51-year-old man with chronic condition. In the Béjaïa Province, a first confirmed case. and a case in the  Skikda Province.
  On 18 March, a sixth death was registered in the Blida Province, a 62-year-old man died on 17 March. eight new cases bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 75. Another new death (7th) in El Oued Province.
  On 19 March, ten new confirmed cases of the COVID-19, including two new deaths, to reach a total of 82 confirmed cases including eight deaths. The same day, a ninth death is recorded in the Médéa Province, a 47-year-old man (Former Algerian judo player Othman Tijani)
  On 20 March, a tenth death was recorded in Algeria in El Oued Province, it is the sister of the first case of Province. The death (11th) of a 77-year-old woman  has been announced in Azeffoun, Tizi-Ouzou Province, bringing the death toll from the virus to 11 in Algeria. and another (12 th) in Khenchela Province, an 85-year-old man. Anti-government protests were called off for the first time in over a year.
  On 21 March, the balance sheet was 139 confirmed cases, including 78 in the  Blida Province, 6 in Oran Province and a first confirmed case in Relizane Province 46. 15 deaths, including eight deaths in of Blida Province.
  On 22 March, the Algerian Minister of Health, Abderrahmane Benbouzid, announced that "Algeria has entered the third phase of the coronavirus epidemic
caption: 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).