iarjhssIARJHSSIARJHSS2708-6267https://doi.org/10.47310/iarjhss.2020.v01i01.025Coronavirus disease 2019 and its social and health impact: sociological look at the news in the town of Bingerville (Côte d’Ivoire)FofanaMemonTraoréKassoumTraoré-CoulibalyDjénébaDépartement de Sociologie, UFR des Sciences Sociales, Université Péléforo Gon Coulibaly, Korhogo, Côte d’IvoireFrom the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2019 called Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19, general opinion in Africa thought they were safe. Without a doubt, the fact that COVID-19 started in mainland China,far, very far from Africa, and initially only affected yellow or white people and very few, if any, black people.It’s an emerging infectious disease like viral zoonosis, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the epidemic of which was requalified on March 11, 2020 by WHO as a pandemic. Unfortunately, in record time, like wildfire, this virus from the end of the world has affected all continents, even all the countries of the world with an increase in the incidence. One of the factors in the spread of this infection is human-to-human transmission by air. In Africa, almost all countries have been progressively affected by infection with the corona virus or COVID-19. The pandemic has brought about a radical transformation in the daily lives of some three billion people [4]. According to the United Nations (UN, 2020), more than a third of humanity is now called upon or under confinement to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The current pandemic caused by COVID-19 disease, certainly has visible effects in most West African countries including Côte d'Ivoire through two channels. The health and humanitarian response require unexpected human and financial resources as well as a reallocation of resources allocated to other development efforts. This situation inevitably has an impact on the social and health position of the populations living in Côte d'Ivoire in general and more particularly of the population of the autonomous district of Abidjan, the epicenter of the pandemic. The study aims to analyze the social impact of the coronavirus on the Abidjan populations precisely those of the commune of Bingerville which represents our field of investigation. Indeed, Bingerville is an old colonial city which is today overtaken by the city of Abidjan with the rise of rapid urbanization. It constitutes a cosmopolitan environment which brings together different nationals from the countries of West Africa. This justifies the choice of this locality as our investigation site. Given the problematic of COVID-19 news, the study to try to favor the mixed approach, despite the limitations of the data collection techniques used to capture the social and health impact.