Health officials in Ivory Coast are investigating a suspected case of the deadly Coronavirus in a female student who recently arrived from China.
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The country’s health ministry announced that the student who is yet to be named is the first person to be tested for the virus on the continent.
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The Ivory Coast’s Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene said in statement that the 34-year-old student traveled from Beijing to the Félix-Houphouët-Boigny International Airport in Abidjan on Saturday and was coughing, sneezing and experienced difficulty breathing.
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The student was moved to a safe location upon arrival at the airport and is currently under medical observation, the ministry said.
But the authorities believe it might be a case of pneumonia and not coronavirus, but the final diagnosis will be made after the analysis of the results of the test, the ministry added.
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The virus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has infected more than 2700 people with 56 already killed.
