Coronavirus kills British tourist in Cape Verde

The government of Cape Verde have announced its first coronavirus death after an infected British man, its index case, died on Tuesday.

On a global scale, there is currently a record of more than 400,000 infections and more than 18,000 deaths from coronavirus, according to Worldometer.

Channels TV reported that the man arrived on the island of Boavista — a tourist hotspot and one of Cape Verde’s 10 islands — on March 9, and began showing symptoms a week later.

On Tuesday, Health Minister Arlindo do Rosario said that his condition “began to worsen, and unfortunately, he died on Monday evening.”

All staff at the hotel where the man was staying are now in confinement, according to the authorities.

Authorities have detected two other cases on Boavista: one in a friend of the British tourist, the other in a 60-year-old Dutch tourist, whose case is considered worrying.

Channels/AFP