CORONAVIRUS: Wife of Canadian PM tests positive as Ghana, Gabon confirm first cases

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau has tested positive to the deadly coronavirus also known as COVID-19 which has spread across the globe.

A statement by the Canadian government on Friday revealed that Sophie had returned from a speaking engagement in Britain and was showing mild flu-like symptoms and would remain in isolation

“The Prime Minister is in good health with no symptoms. As a precautionary measure and following the advice of doctors, he will be in isolation for a planned period of 14 days,” the statement added.

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Meanwhile, Ghana has confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus as Gabon confirmed its first case.

Ghana’s Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu said two people who’d arrived from Norway and Turkey tested positive for the virus.

In Gabon, Government Spokesman Edgard Anicet Mboumbou Miyakou said the infected patient was a Gabonese man who’d arrived from France.

Gabon’s spokesman said the patient who had tested positive was feeling better – having displayed symptoms of cough, sore throat and breathing problems earlier.

He said the patient was in an isolation facility and the government was tracing those who had come into close contact with him.

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