South Africa’s Health Minister on Thursday confirmed the country’s first case of the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
“The National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed that a suspected case of COVID-19 has tested positive,” the country’s health minister, Zweli Mkhize said.
“The patient is a 38-year-old male who traveled to Italy with his wife. They were part of a group of 10 people and they arrived back in South Africa on March 1, 2020,” Mhkize added.
The case was detected in the country’s eastern Kwa-Zulu Natal province.
The patient and his wife were part of a group of 10 people who arrived back in South Africa from Italy on March 1.
Two days later, on March 3, he consulted a private general practitioner with a fever, headache, sore throat and a cough.
Ekohotblog understands that globally, more than 95,000 people have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the vast majority in China where the virus originated.
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