Morocco’s health ministry on Monday evening confirmed the country’s first coronavirus case.
The patient is a Moroccan man living in Italy, the Reuters news agency reports, and he is receiving treatment at a hospital in Casablanca.
His health condition is not critical, the ministry is quoted as saying in a statement.
The case was confirmed after tests at the Institut Pasteur-Maroc returned positive, according to the state-owned Maghreb Agency Press.
News of Morocco’s first patient on Monday coincides with similar confirmations in Tunisia and Senegal.
Source: BBC