Egypt confirms Africa's first Covid-19 case

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NSTworld: Egyptian authorities have notified the World Health Organisation and the patient has been placed in quarantined isolation in hospital.

“The ministry has taken preventative measures and is monitoring the patient... who is stable,” said health ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed.

The death toll from the epidemic virus has reached over 1,500 cases, almost exclusively in China where it was first identified.

 

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