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Coronavirus: Senegal Confirms First Case
- Coronavirus: Senegal Confirms First Case
Another sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal, on Monday confirmed its very first case of coronavirus after Nigeria reported its first case last week.
The country’s health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, said the patient was a French man who resides in the country but came back from a skiing holiday in France on Feb. 26 on an Air Senegal flight.
While the patient passed a temperature check at Dakar’s main airport on his return, he fell sick two days later and went to a nearby hospital for a medical checkup. The hospital alerted the authorities who quarantined him in Dakar’s Fann Hospital for a second check and eventually confirmed him positive to the virus.
According to the health minister, the patient had been in contact with his family, wife and two children but 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,” he added.