Ivory Coast records first coronavirus death


Police patrol the streets during a curfew that has been implemented as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on March 28, 2020. The official tally of infections is 165 in the West African nation. – EPA pic, March 30, 2020.

IVORY Coast’s health minister announced the country’s first confirmed coronavirus during a daily briefing yesterday on the outbreak.

Eugene Aka Aouele gave no details on the victim’s age or sex but said the diagnosis had been made “post-mortem”.


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