South Sudan announces its 1st case of Coronavirus

South Sudan has announced its first case of COVID-19, making it the 51st of Africa's 54 countries to report the disease. A UN worker who arrived in the country from Netherlands on February 28 is ill with the disease.

 

The patient, a 29-year-old woman, first showed signs of the disease on April 2 and is recovering. Ethiopia reported its first death from the



virus yesterday and announced five more cases bringing its total to 43, most of them imported by travellers.

 

A number of Ethiopia's regional states have implemented bans on movement of people and vehicles, but not yet in the capital Addis Ababa. In Kenya, the government extended its travel ban for 30 days.