Senegal’s health ministry has confirmed that five more people in the country have tested positive for coronavirus – all of whom had come into contact with an existing patient who’d traveled home from Italy before testing positive this week.
Some of the newly infected patients are said to be family relations of that man – a Senegalese national who was diagnosed on Wednesday – but the ministry’s statement doesn’t say how many.
It brings the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 10.
Two of those contracted but survived the virus, the health ministry says, while the eight others are “still receiving treatment”:
