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Kenya Reports First Case of Coronavirus

Kenya Reports First Case of Coronavirus

(Bloomberg) --

Kenya reported it’s first case of the coronavirus, a female national who had returned from the U.S. via London, Health Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a televised speech.

“The case was confirmed on the 12th of March,” he said in the capital, Nairobi. “The patient is stable, her temperature has gone down to normal.”

Kenya Reports First Case of Coronavirus

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