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Nigeria reported the first coronavirus case in sub-Saharan Africa on 28 February 2020 after an Italian citizen returned to the country from Milan earlier this week with the virus. Two of 12 South Africans who were working on board an American-owned cruise ship, the Princess Diamond, were diagnosed with the coronavirus in Japan. The World Health Organisation has warned that African health systems are ill-equipped to respond should the virus spread on the continent.

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