Africa has confirmed its first case of coronavirus after a person in Egypt tested positive for the disease, Afriupdate reports.
The nationality of the person was not given in the joint statement with the population ministry, which added that they had shown no “symptoms”.
The ministry said it had immediately informed the World Health Organization and taken all necessary preventative measures.
The person, who is not Egyptian, is in hospital isolation, the country’s health ministry said.
Egypt is believed to be the 28th country in the World to record a case of the killer virus and it is the first in Africa.
Since the outbreak of the killer virus from Wuhan in China, more than 64,000 cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 people have died so far.
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