Cletus77:
(Reuters) - Senegal's health minister on Monday announced the first case of coronavirus in the country, the second case in sub-Saharan Africa after one was confirmed in Nigeria last week.

The patient is a French man who lives in Senegal and flew back from France on Feb. 26, Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr told reporters. The patient had since been in contact with his wife and two children and is now under quarantine in a hospital in the capital Dakar.


He passed a temperature check at the capital Dakar's main airport on his return but developed a fever two days later and went to a private clinic for a check-up, the minister said. That clinic alerted the authorities who have quarantined him in Dakar's Fann Hospital.

The patient had been in contact with his wife and two children, the minister said. It was not clear how many other people had also been in contact with him. Authorities are in the process of tracing the other passengers on the Air Senegal flight.

Fann Hospital was not reachable for comment.

The rapid spread of the new coronavirus has increased fears of a pandemic, prompting governments to step up control measures and sending global markets into a dive.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN20P2JX

GreetMe:


A typical Nigeria is never serious until it involves extremities

Cletus77:


Remember the virus has an incubation period of about two weeks. No one is dead yet doesn't mean we are safe for now. Although i pray a cure is found

abkrgumel:
So far no one is dead in Nigeria, I think we are safe

dominique:
Why are these Europeans distributing the virus anyhow?

GreetMe:
It's always a foreigner bringing it to Africa, if it were the other way round, they would have used the opportunity to display their racism

Cletus77:
Meanwhile Tunisia has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus, the health minister said on Monday at a news conference.

The minister Abdelatif el-Maki said the patient was a Tunisian man.

As of Monday, there have been over 89,000 cases of the virus globally, the majority in China, according to a Reuters tally. Outside of China, it has spread to 66 countries, with more than 8,800 cases and 130 deaths. Globally, the illness has killed over 3,000 people.

The risk of a global spread and impact of the coronavirus is now "very high", the highest level of alarm, but containment is still possible, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

The total confirmed cases in Africa so far is in two countries in Sub-saharan Africa; Nigeria and Senegal, and three cases in North Africa; Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia.


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tunisia/tunisia-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-health-minister-idUSKBN20P2AD

GreetMe:


A typical Nigeria is never serious until it involves extremities

Lexusgs430:

To discourage those applying for visas........

Offpoint:

Werey ni bobo yi sha