South Africa on Thursday 5th March 2020 recorded its first case of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), Afriupdate reports.
As seen below, the South Africa’s health minister Dr. Zweli Mkhize confirmed this in a tweet on Thursday that the country had recorded its first case of the deadly coronavirus.
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‘‘This morning, Thursday March 5, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed that a suspected case of COVID-19 has tested positive,’‘ the minister tweeted.
The patient is a 38-year-old male who travelled to Italy with his wife. They were part of a group of 10 people and they arrived back in South Africa on March 1, 2020.#COVID19
— Zweli Mkhize (@DrZweliMkhize) March 5, 2020
The latest statistics on the dreaded virus indicates there are over 92,000 confirmed cases of infections with over 3,110 people having succumbed globally.
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In a related news, South Africa says its nationals who had tested positive on the cruise ship Diamond Princess have now tested negative and will shortly be making their way home’.
The pair who initially tested positive for coronavirus had been hospitalised in Japan after being taken ashore from the cruise ship where they worked.
South Africa, which last week said it would evacuate its nationals from the Chinese city of Wuhan, adding that those plans are at an ‘advanced stage’.
“A total of 184 South Africans have indicated their desire to be repatriated,” it adds in a statement.
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They are said to be mostly “students, teachers and other professionals”.
The Diamond Princess was first quarantined in January when a passenger who disembarked in Hong Kong tested positive for coronavirus.
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