Zimbabwe on Friday confirmed it’s first case of the novel coronavirus making Zimbabwe the 38th African country to be infected by the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19), Afriupdate reports.
According to a statement from Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care, the patient was a 38 year-old Caucasian resident of Victoria Falls. He has a recent travel history to Manchester in the United Kingdom.
He arrived in the country on March 15 from South Africa. The statement adds that he self quarantined and subsequently reported symptoms leading to a test being run at a facility in the capital Harare.
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Zimbabwe is the fifth southern African country infected. The government had earlier this week imposed a number of restrictions in order to curtail the spread of the virus.
Other countries across the globe have already taken steps to contain the outbreak.
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The vast majority of people recover from the new virus in a matter of weeks, but the outbreak has caused more than 5,000 deaths worldwide.
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