Ivory Coast Health Ministry have announced that their health officials are dealing with a suspected case of corona virus in the country. Its victim is an anonymous student, a 34-year-old woman, currently in isolation, who returned to the West African country from Beijing on Saturday. The traveller has lived in China for the past five years and had shown flu-like symptoms before boarding the plane to Abidjan, this according to the statement released by the country’s Health Ministry
The Health Ministry said that, “Her general state is satisfactory, although at this stage, they are suspicions of a case of pneumonia tied to the corona virus.” The woman’s test results were being expected on Sunday evening. Since the outbreak began in Wuhan, Nigeria and other African countries have introduced extra screening on flights arriving from China.
In Europe, two patients have been admitted to the hospital in Zurich with the suspected Corona virus as Switzerland prepares for the potential spread of the virus. The two suspected cases of corona virus in Switzerland are still being analysed and have not been confirmed by medical authorities. The results of tests are expected to be returned on Tuesday morning, based on a statement from the Triemli hospital in Zurich.
The virus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has spread to over 2,000 people and killed over 56 individuals.