Nigerian authorities have reported the first case of the new coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa as the outbreak spreads to a region with some of the world's weakest health systems.
The health commissioner for Lagos, Africa's largest city with more than 20 million people, says an Italian citizen who entered Nigeria on Tuesday from Milan on a business trip fell ill the next day.
Cases of the virus were confirmed in Egypt and Algeria in north Africa in recent days. Until then, some global health experts had expressed surprise that no cases had been reported in Africa.
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