Nigeria on Friday announced the first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa.
The case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan earlier this week, Health Minister Osagie Ehanire said in a statement on Twitter.
Prior to the case in Nigeria, there had been just two cases across the continent - in Egypt and Algeria. "We have already started working to identify all the contacts of the patient since he entered Nigeria."
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