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Djibouti confirms 1st COVID-19 case

| @indiablooms | Mar 18, 2020, at 04:53 pm

Addis Ababa/Xinhua/UNI: Djibouti confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, according to Djiboutian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.

The minister tweeted that a Spanish citizen who arrived in the Horn of Africa nation on Saturday tested positive for the virus.

"The Spanish citizen has been confined and under medical surveillance, with this case Djibouti has confirmed its first positive COVID-19 case," Youssouf tweeted.

Djibouti, which lies in a key location connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, hosts a number of foreign military bases and is the main sea outlet for landlocked neighbor Ethiopia. 

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