South Africa on Thursday confirmed its first case of coronavirus, affecting a ci...
CAPE TOWN - South Africa on Thursday confirmed its first case of coronavirus, affecting a citizen who had passed through the main airport showing no symptoms on his way back from a trip to Italy.
“It will have a huge impact on travel, and a negative impact also on our economy. It is already showing signs of having a negative impact on our tourism.” Earlier the health ministry said the patient was a 38-year-old male who traveled to Italy with his wife, passed through the main O.R. Tambo airport in Johannesburg when they returned home and then went to the eastern region of KwaZulu-Natal. They were part of a group of 10 people and they arrived back in South Africa on March 1, 2020, it added.
He added that South Africa was working with the World Health Organization and some African institutions to help diagnose the virus across the region.
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