Coronavirus: Second case confirmed in Senegal

Senegal's health ministry has confirmed that another person has tested positive for the deadly coronavirus, the second case in the country.

It says the patient is an 80-year-old French national who arrived in the West African country on 29 February.

The patient is currently receiving treatment at the same hospital for infectious diseases in the capital city, Dakar, where another Frenchman was hospitalised for coronavirus last week, the BBC reported.

As at the time of this report, the total number of confirmed coronavirus cases on the African continent has moved up to a dozen.

In the continent, at least, five were confirmed in Algeria, two people in Egypt and one each in Morocco, Nigeria, and Tunisia.

Senegal is one of the 33 sub-Saharan African nations with testing facilities for coronavirus and according to the World Health Organization, the remaining 14 sub-Saharan nations currently without testing equipment to gain facilities within a fortnight.

BBC