Mauritania confirms first coronavirus case

Reuters

Published Mar 13, 2020 • < 1 minute read

NOUAKCHOTT — Mauritania’s health ministry confirmed the first case of coronavirus in the West African country in a statement on Friday.

The patient is a European man living in Mauritania who returned to the country’s capital Nouakchott on March 9 and had since been in quarantine. His nationality was not specified. (Reporting by Kissima Diagana; Writing by Juliette Jabkhiro; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

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