{"id":5639,"date":"2020-03-13T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T08:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2020-03-13T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T08:45:13","slug":"ghana-gabon-confirm-first-cases-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=5639","title":{"rendered":"Ghana, Gabon Confirm First Cases of Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/thisday-846548948316-wp-data\/wp-media\/2020\/02\/962700dc-coronavirus-2-696x522.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabon and Ghana confirmed their first cases of coronavirus on Thursday, becoming the ninth and tenth countries in sub-Saharan Africa to register positive cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The region has so far been less badly hit by coronavirus than Europe or China. Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Cameroon, Togo, South Africa, Burkina Faso and Democratic Republic of Congo have also registered cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Gabon\u2019s government said its case was a 27-year-old Gabonese man who had returned from France on March 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghana\u2019s health ministry said its two cases were people who had returned recently from Norway and Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese are imported cases of COVID-19. Both patients are currently being kept in isolation and are stable,\u201d the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 127,000 people have been infected globally and over 4,700 have died since the virus first emerged in China late last year, according to a Reuters tally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sub-Saharan Africa did not confirm its first coronavirus infection until Feb. 28 in Nigeria, but experts warn that rising cases could test already fragile health systems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabon and Ghana confirmed their first cases of coronavirus on Thursday, becoming the ninth and tenth countries in sub-Saharan Africa to register positive cases. The region has so far been less badly hit by coronavirus than Europe or China. 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