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ICoast records first coronavirus death: minister
ABIDJAN, March 30, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Ivory Coast’s health minister announced
the country’s first confirmed coronavirus during a daily briefing Sunday on
the outbreak there.
Eugene Aka Aouele gave no details on the victim’s age or sex, but said the
diagnosis had been made “post-mortem”.
Aouele also announced another 25 cases of the virus had been recorded,
bringing the official total in the country to 165.
President Alassane Ouattara declared a state of emergency last Monday to
tackle the outbreak, imposing a curfew between 9:00 pm and 5:00 am, and
shutting the country’s borders.
He also banned movement in and out of the economic capital Abidjan, and
closed bars, restaurants and schools.
Neighbouring Burkina Faso has recorded 222 cases of the virus and 12
deaths.
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