Nigeria confirms coronavirus, first in sub-Saharan Africa

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A man walks past empty shops in the deserted China Commercial City shopping centre, popularly called 'China Town,' in Ojota in Lagos, as people fear of contracting the COVID-19, the novel coronavirus on Thursday.Nigeria’s health authorities on Friday reported the country’s first case of a new coronavirus in Lagos, the first confirmed appearance of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa.

Nigerian health officials have been strengthening measures to ensure that any outbreak in Lagos is controlled and contained quickly, Abayomi said in a statement. Cases of the virus were already confirmed in Egypt and Algeria in north Africa in recent days. Until then, some global health experts had expressed surprise that no cases had been confirmed in Africa.

 

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