Belarus reported Friday its first coronavirus case, an Iranian student who arrived in the country from Azerbaijan last week.

The health ministry said the patient was in a “satisfactory” condition.

People the student had been in contact with since their arrival on February 22 had been placed in quarantine in the hospital for infectious diseases in the capital Minsk, it added in a statement.

The ministry also said that there would now be health checks on anyone arriving in the country from Italy — the worst affected country in Europe — Iran and South Korea.

Travellers from China were already subject to such controls.

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In a similar report, Nigeria on Friday recorded its first case of Coronavirus after the outbreak of the disease in China.

A statement signed by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan to Lagos on February 25 was suspected to have contracted the disease.

Ehanire said the Italian was confirmed positive for coronavirus by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), part of the Laboratory Network of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

He said the patient is clinically stable, with no serious symptoms, and is being managed at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.

The minister advised Nigerians to pay adequate attention to their hygiene and reeled out measures to prevent the contracting of the disease.

[AFP]

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