African Countries Step up Screening amid China's Coronavirus Outbreak - THISDAYLIVE

A number of African countries have introduced airport screenings and other precautionary measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus that has infected hundreds in China.China has been expanding its influence in Africa for years and the continent is a destination for Chinese business people and tourists alike.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said on Wednesday that it “has heightened screening measures’’ at its points of entry and that travellers from Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province in China, may be asked questions about “symptoms of illness and travel history’’. Zimbabwe Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo, said that his southern African country is “on high alerts, like the rest of the world’’.

Egypt’s Cairo airport started screening passengers arriving from China for signs of the new coronavirus outbreak, airport sources said on Thursday.

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