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| COVID-19 pandemic in Guam | |
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 Guam National Guardsmen dropping a COVID-19 test into a bag for transport to a testing lab, April 22 | |
 Map of the COVID-19 pandemic in Guam (as of 25 March 2022[update])
10,000+ Confirmed cases
1,000–9,999 Confirmed cases
100-999 Confirmed cases
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| Disease | COVID-19 |
| Virus strain | SARS-CoV-2 |
| Location | Guam |
| Arrival date | March 15, 2020 (4 years, 8 months, 1 week and 3 days) |
| Confirmed cases | 60,158[1] |
| Active cases | 150 |
| Recovered | 60,008 |
Deaths | 408 |
| Government website | |
| Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services COVID-19 Guam Homeland Security COVID-19 portal | |
Guam, one of the external territories of the United States of America confirmed its first case of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 15, 2020, and the first death on March 22. The Government of Guam ordered the general lockdown of the island in mid-March. Governor Lou Leon Guerrero announced the implementation of a four-step "Pandemic Condition of Readiness" (PCOR) on April 30, 2020. Travelers to Guam from designated high-risk areas must provide a recent negative COVID-19 test or undergo mandatory quarantine in a government-approved facility. Guam moved from PCOR 1 to PCOR 2 on May 10, allowing some business activity with restrictions, and then to PCOR 3 on July 20. An outbreak in mid-August was not controlled for several months, resulting in the 7-day rolling test positivity rate to spike above 15% in early October 2020, as well as infections in both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Guam announced a return to the lockdown conditions of PCOR 1 on August 14 to control the outbreak, which was not loosened to PCOR 2 until January 15, 2021. It was further relaxed to PCOR 3 on February 21, 2021. From December 2020 to July 2021 cases stayed very low until a surge in August 2021 largely as a result of the delta variant. By October 2021, 90% of the population was vaccinated.[2]
By May 7, 2021, there had been 8,023 confirmed and suspected cases, resulting in 139 deaths. 95 cases were in active quarantine.[3] According to the weekly situation report issued on May 7, 2021, 59 cases had tested positive in the previous seven days, for a test percent positivity of 2.9%. Nine cases was identified through contact tracing and seven were travelers from other parts of the United States, of which six were identified in quarantine.[4] The 1,156 cases and one death from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, which docked at Guam amid its 2020 outbreak, are counted separately.
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- ^ "JIC RELEASE NO. 833 – Three COVID-19-Related Fatalities Reported; COVID-19 Updates: 152 New Cases, 51 Hospitalized; DPHSS Job Fair Saturday, October 30; Food Commodities Distribution Continues – GHS OCD | Government of Guam". www.ghs.guam.gov. Archived from the original on October 27, 2021. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
- ^ "JIC RELEASE NO. 660 – Three of 450 Test Positive for COVID-19; Pfizer-BioNTech Shipment Arrives; UPDATED COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Schedule; Food Commodities Distribution Continues". May 7, 2021. Archived from the original on May 7, 2021. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ "Guam COVID-19 Surveillance Situation Report 211: March 12, 2020 – May 7, 2021". Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services. Archived from the original on May 7, 2021. Retrieved May 7, 2021.