Trending
- How transition finance can catalyse Africa’s green industrial revolution
- Stanbic PMI Report: Mixed performance as Kenya’s agriculture, construction offset manufacturing decline
- Uganda’s land management gets a tech makeover to boost transparency
- Nigeria’s output dips fastest in 19 months on a sharp rise in costs
- Apple faces growing backlash over Congo exploitation
- Why East Africa is staring at higher wheat prices in 2025
- Nairobi Gate SEZ pumps $7 million into Kenya’s agro-processing industry
- What impact will the US election have on Africa?
Browsing: Coronavirus in Italia
When Nigeria announced its first positive coronavirus infection African countries are now on guard as this has been a wake-up call for nations to strength their surveillance as well as disease containment.
The first case of the coronavirus was confirmed on February 25, via an Italian carrier who works in Nigeria and flew into the nation’s commercial city, Lagos.
According to information from BBC, Nigerian authorities commented that the “patient zero” is who is being treated in a hospital within the city, is stable and with no serious symptoms.
On the larger scale, Egypt and Algeria have also confirmed cases of the virus, while Kenya—whose authorities were debating on flights cancellation to China have given a court order to suspend flights from China, on February 28.
On a global scale, more than 2,800 people have died and more than 83,000 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in more than 50 …