MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 01st April, 2020) Two people in Burundi have tested positive for the new coronavirus, becoming the East African nation's first COVID-19 patients, its Public Health Ministry said Tuesday.
Both are Burundian nationals from the port city of Bujumbura. They are being treated at Bumerec Hospital, the Ministry for Public Health said in a press release.
One is a 56-year-old man who traveled to neighboring Rwanda. He was hospitalized after showing flu-like symptoms on March 18. The other is a 42-year-old who returned from Dubai.
