LAGOS: Nigeria has reported its first case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in sub-Saharan Africa on Friday — an Italian man who returned to densely populated Lagos early this week.

Cases had previously been reported in Egypt and Algeria, but not in the sub-Saharan region.

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