2 days ago by si.com
The 12-team league was first announced at the NBA All-Star 2020 Africa luncheon in Chicago and features teams from all over the continent. read more...
Nigeria and Lithuania also report first cases as WHO says epidemic could get ‘out of control’. Follow live news
First cases also detected in New Zealand and Lithuania as stock market losses around the world deepen
The outbreak has “pandemic potential,” the W.H.O. warns, as 12 countries record their first cases in past 48 hours.
Nigeria’s health authorities reported the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa, adding to fears about the spread of the virus on a continent already beset by some of the world’s weakest health-care systems.
The Italian citizen had returned from Milan, in a region badly hit by the outbreak of the virus.
Coronavirus epidemic: Nigeria confirms first case in sub Saharan Africa
An Italian citizen who traveled to Lagos, Nigeria's economic nerve center, is the first confirmed case of coronavirus in sub Saharan Africa, according to the country's Health Ministry.
With the death toll from the COVID-19 disease nearing 3,000, global health officials say no country can hope to be spared, and all must be ready to combat domestic outbreaks.
The illness was diagnosed in an Italian patient in Lagos, the countryâs largest city and one of the continentâs biggest metropolises, raising fears that the virus was poised to sweep the region.
The disease was just discovered in Lagos, Nigeria, in a traveler from Italy.
Nigerian health authorities said they’re tracing everyone who’s been in contact with an Italian man who tested positive for the coronavirus, the first such case in sub-Saharan Africa.
Nigeria's ministry of health on Thursday night confirmed the region's first coronavirus case in Lagos State, Nigeria.
The Italian citizen with the coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, had recently traveled from Milan to Lagos.