Analysis of COVID-19 evolution in Senegal: impact of health care capacity

COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) [25] on 11 March 2020, is still spreading around the world up to date 26 September 2020. The number of people infected is beyond 32 million on 26 September 2020 with 989,380 deaths [24]. In Senegal, the number of cumulative cases is currently 14839 with 2624 individuals undergoing treatment on 25 September 2020[13]. The first cases, from Wuhan, were notified to WHO on 31 December 2019 [25, 26] while, Senegal notified its first case on 02 March 2020 [13]. Because of its limited resources, as in many sub-Saharan African countries, it is therefore valuable to understand the growth and the timing in responding to the logistic needs of their health system. We note that several developed countries that nevertheless have high-capacity health structures have been overwhelmed and this considerably impacted negatively in the combat against the pandemic.