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Sudan reports first coronavirus case

This photo taken on March 5, 2019, shows the entrance to the emergency room at Patras University Hospital in Rio, outside Patras, southwestern Greece, where three patients infected with Covid-19, the new coronavirus, are hospitalised. PHOTO | EUROKINISSI | AFP

By  AFP

Sudan announced on Friday its first case of the novel coronavirus following the death of a 50-year-old man the night before.

The Sudanese citizen had recently been in the United Arab Emirates, the health ministry said in a statement, without providing further details.

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