South Africa has
confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus.
South Africa is the
7th country to have confirmed a case of the disease in Africa.
The index case was
announced by Zweli Mkhize, the country’s minister of health, in a statement on
Thursday.
Mkhize said the case
was detected in the country’s eastern Kwa-Zulu Natal province.
According to the
statement, the patient is a 38-year-old male who travelled with his wife to
Italy — the country with the most severe outbreak of the disease in Europe with
3,089 cases and 107 deaths.
The couple was said
to have returned to South Africa on March 1, and two days later, the patient
consulted a private doctor with symptoms of fever, headache, a sore throat, and
cough.
“This morning,… the
National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed that a suspected case of
COVID-19 has tested positive,” Mkhize said.
He added that the
patient and doctor have been in isolation since Tuesday.
Since the outbreak
of coronavirus in Wuhan, China in December 2019, more than 90,000 people have
been infected around the world and with over 3000 deaths recorded globally.
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