HAWAII - Air Canada
An Air Canada flight attendant has tested positive for the coronavirus in Hawaii, and was the first of that state’s 16 current COVID-19 patients, according to local media.
UNITED NATIONS
An accredited journalist covering the United Nations headquarters in New York has tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19).
They are already free of symptoms and self-isolating. “We have been informed that the individual was last at UN Headquarters on Thursday, March 12. “They attended the spokesperson’s noon briefing and spent time at the Delegates Lounge and in the press area on the third floor,”
This is the second known case at the UN headquarters after a delegate from the Permanent Mission of Philippines tested positive for the virus on March 13. UN spokesman, Mr Stephane Dujarric, who confirmed the first case in a statement said the fellow met with two delegates from another mission at the complex on March 9
AFRICA -
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are now 633 confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa in 33 countries.