Africa: Coronavirus - Cameroonian Student in China First African Victim

5 February 2020

A Cameroonian student in China is the first confirmed African to test positive to the Novel Coronavirus.

Yangtze University, the institution where he studies, confirmed in a statement that the "21-year-old was being treated in a hospital in southern Jingzhou city, China."

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