Latest update reaching our quarters says Gabon and Ghana have joined the long list of countries that have reported cases of Coronavirus as they both confirmed their first cases of the outbreak.
With the latest development, 10 countries have recorded positive cases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Gabon being the ninth and Ghana, the tenth to record positive cases in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Cameroon, Togo, South Africa, Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of Congo have also recorded cases.
Ekohotblog understands that the government of said its case was a 27-year-old Gabonese man who had returned from France on March 8.
Ghana’s health ministry said its two cases were people who had returned recently from Norway and Turkey.
“These are imported cases of COVID-19. Both patients are currently being kept in isolation and are stable,” the Ghana ministry said in a statement.
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