(Reuters) - Senegal's health minister on Monday announced the first case of coronavirus in the country, the second case in sub-Saharan Africa after one was confirmed in Nigeria last week.

The patient is a French man who lives in Senegal and flew back from France on Feb. 26, Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr told reporters. The patient had since been in contact with his wife and two children and is now under quarantine in a hospital in the capital Dakar.


He passed a temperature check at the capital Dakar's main airport on his return but developed a fever two days later and went to a private clinic for a check-up, the minister said. That clinic alerted the authorities who have quarantined him in Dakar's Fann Hospital.

The patient had been in contact with his wife and two children, the minister said. It was not clear how many other people had also been in contact with him. Authorities are in the process of tracing the other passengers on the Air Senegal flight.

Fann Hospital was not reachable for comment.

The rapid spread of the new coronavirus has increased fears of a pandemic, prompting governments to step up control measures and sending global markets into a dive.

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Meanwhile Tunisia has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus, the health minister said on Monday at a news conference.

The minister Abdelatif el-Maki said the patient was a Tunisian man.

As of Monday, there have been over 89,000 cases of the virus globally, the majority in China, according to a Reuters tally. Outside of China, it has spread to 66 countries, with more than 8,800 cases and 130 deaths. Globally, the illness has killed over 3,000 people.

The risk of a global spread and impact of the coronavirus is now "very high", the highest level of alarm, but containment is still possible, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

The total confirmed cases in Africa so far is in two countries in Sub-saharan Africa; Nigeria and Senegal, and three cases in North Africa; Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia.


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So far no one is dead in Nigeria, I think we are safe

I'm not praying for anyone to die o
My God protect us as a nation

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abkrgumel:
So far no one is dead in Nigeria, I think we are safe

Remember the virus has an incubation period of about two weeks. No one is dead yet doesn't mean we are safe for now. Although i pray a cure is found

abkrgumel:
So far no one is dead in Nigeria, I think we are safe

A typical Nigeria is never serious until it involves extremities

It's always a foreigner bringing it to Africa, if it were the other way round, they would have used the opportunity to display their racism

It shows how these western countries likes Africa o abi iru kaatikaati leleyi...Dem no see better things dey dash Africa, na Virus abi... Africa needs to unite, these white people no like us I swear...they recently said why is Africa not infected and the following week, cases of infection started coming in...Africa be wise

Okay ,we are getting there

GreetMe:
It's always a foreigner bringing it to Africa, if it were the other way round, they would have used the opportunity to display their racism

they would have even placed bans

All these foreigners should please remain in their countries for now. Ah ah.

Getting scary

Africa too worship oyibo.. if na north Korea e go kill these people. Useless idiotss

Four now

They just want to take the disease down to Africa by all cost

See health facility abeg.
Nigeria one day like let me keep quiet ;d
Meanwhile

I cover myself with the blood of Jesus

ghen ghen
it has started o

later it would become an African thing

Karrima:
Getting scary

It is just getting scary for you?

Wtf have u been since last year

GreetMe:

A typical Nigeria is never serious until it involves extremities

A typical black man

Why all this foreigners dey dey carry this thing come africa

Torrr! I'm sure the virus can never last long in that country because by the time he see as people black for there, na the shock alone go pursue am komot cos e no go fit stand the blackness ... Senegal Sun go come join hand deal with am again.. Corona go suffer for Senegal..

Africa needs to ban this oyinbos and Asians from coming to the continent. Enough already, if this virus was from Africa they would have stigmatized and ban you already.

Nothing to worry about. The cure will be found soon.