Ghana confirms first case of covid-19

Ghana and Gabon have confirmed their first cases of the coronavirus.

Ghana’s health minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, said two people who had arrived from Norway and Turkey tested positive for the virus.

In Gabon, government spokesman, Edgard Miyakou, revealed that the patient was a Gabonese man who had arrived from France.

Ghanaian authorities have said their two patients are being kept in isolation and are in a stable condition.

They have also started the process of tracing everyone who was in contact with the two patients.

Gabon’s spokesman said the patient who had tested positive, was feeling better, having displayed symptoms of cough, sore throat and breathing problems earlier.

He said the patient was in an isolation facility and the government was tracing those who had come into close contact with him.