Coronavirus: Confirmed cases in 29 African countries; 12 negative tests in Mozambique

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Coronavirus: Confirmed cases in 29 African countries; 12 negative tests in Mozambique

10:50 CAT | 17 Mar 2020

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Covid-19 continues to spread on our continent, with 350 cases so far confirmed across 29 countries. In Mozambique, 12 citizens, eight of them foreigners, have been tested since the beginning of the pandemic, all coming out negative for the new coronavirus.

Tanzania, Liberia, Somalia and Benin on Monday reported their first cases of patients infected with the new coronavirus, all the them citizens returning or arriving from abroad.

Cases have also been confirmed in Guinea-Conakry, Mauritania, Sudan, Republic Central African, Equatorial Guinea, Seychelles, eSwatini, Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Algeria, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ghana, Togo, Morocco, Egypt and South Africa.

Mozambique still has no confirmed cases. As of this Sunday (15-03), 12 suspected cases had been tested in Mozambique, @Verdade learned from the Ministry of Health.

Four of those cases tested positive for the H1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu.

@Verdade has learned that the tests for the new coronavirus were carried out on four nationals and eight foreigners – a child, a teenager and ten adults. Three of the 12 individuals tested had been in China; one had arrived from Germany, another from Italy, and another from Portugal, and the other six had all been in contact with a traveller from an affected country.

All 12 tested negative for Covid-19,