Gabon and Ghana have confirmed their first cases of coronavirus.
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.
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Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Cameroon, Togo, South Africa, Burkina Faso and Democratic Republic of Congo have also recorded cases.
In a statement, Gabon’s government said its case was a 27-year-old Gabonese man who had returned from France on March 8.
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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.
