Benin reports first COVID-19 death
People's Daily Online
(Xinhua) 08:54, April 07, 2020
COTONOU, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Benin recorded its first death case of COVID-19 on Sunday, Benin's health minister Benjamin Hounkpatin announced on Monday.
Speaking during a press conference on the situation of the pandemic, Hounkpatin declared that this first death due to the coronavirus was a 43-year-old woman suffering from sickle cell disease, who returned from a country affected by the COVID-19 and had stayed for several days in a private clinic in Cotonou, economic capital of the country.
The minister also announced that Benin registered a total of 22 confirmed cases, in which 16 are under treatment and five have been cured.
Benin has reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 16.
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