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By Martins Ifijeh The United States has recorded it’s first death from Coronavirus. This is even as President Donald Trump’s administration has placed a travel restriction on Iran, Italy and South Korea in response to the death from the virus in Washington State. Speaking Saturday, US Vice President Mike Pence said the existing travel ban …
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Senegal confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus on Monday, marking just the second infection in sub-Saharan Africa amid concerns over the continent's vulnerability to outbreaks of contagious diseases. A French man who lives in Senegal visited France in mid-February, contracting the virus before returning to the West African country and being quarantined in the capital Dakar, Senegal's Health Minister Diouf Sarr said. "The results of...
Senegal confirms first coronavirus case - health ministry
Senegal has reported its first confirmed case of novel coronavirus infection on Monday. The patient is a 54-year-old French, male, who came to Dakar on an Air Senegal flight after a vacation in France. He began to show fever symptoms two days later and went to a private clinic for treatment.