BREAKING NEWS: Nigerian tests positive for coronavirus
Afnews Editor
Mar 08, 2020
Mayor of Washington D.C. Muriel Bowser said a Nigerian who passed through the US capital city has tested positive for coronavirus in neighbouring state of Maryland.
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She announced this at a news conference on Saturday night.
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She said the Nigerian had visited Washington D.C. and tested positive later in Maryland. All his contacts are being traced in the city.
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Bowser had earlier announced that a man in his 50s has tested positive for coronavirus, marking the first presumptively confirmed case in the capital.
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She said the man started exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19 in late February and was hospitalized Thursday.
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President Donald Trump says he isn't concerned "at all" about the coronavirus getting closer to the White House after the first Washington case and an attendee of a recent political conference where Trump himself had spoken also tested positive for the virus.
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Nineteen people have died in the U.S. from the virus. The number of infections in the U.S. is now above 400.
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