The patient is identified
as an Italian citizen who arrived in the country on February 17.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has
come to establish presence in Africa as the Algerian authorities on Tuesday
announced the country’s first case.
“One case was confirmed positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19), out of two suspected cases (both) of Italian
nationality,” the North African country’s health ministry is quoted by media
reports.
The infected person is said
to have been quarantined.
The health ministry assured
that it had reinforced its monitoring and surveillance systems at all points of
entry into the country.
Egypt also, on February 14,
announced its first case of the deadly disease which broke out in the Wuhan
city of China in December 2019.
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