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Senegal’s government confirmed the country’s first coronavirus case, the second in sub-Saharan Africa.
The patient is a French national who arrived in Dakar, the capital, on February 26, Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr told reporters at a briefing broadcast on Facebook. The man sought help two days later after suffering from fever, headache and a sore throat, and is being kept under quarantine at the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Center of the Fann Hospital in Dakar, the minister said.
Prior to his arrival, the man spent time in Nimes in southern France and at a ski resort in the Alps over a two-week period, Sarr said. He has been living in Senegal with his wife and two children for more than two years.
“To date, there has been no major concerns about the patient’s condition,†said Sarr.
The man’s family is being monitored by the authorities, Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye, director-general at the health ministry, said by phone.