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Zambia’s health ministry on Wednesday confirmed its first two cases of COVID-19.

ALSO READ: Burkina Faso reports first coronavirus cases

“The patients are a Zambia citizen couple that travelled to France on a 10-day holiday,” Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya said.

(Reuters)

 

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