South Sudan records 82 new COVID-19 cases
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has announced that the country’s ministry of health registered on Friday 82 more cases of COVID-19 all of whom are South Sudanese.
This, the high-level taskforce said, brings the total cases of coronavirus in the world’s youngest country to 551.
South Sudan has seen rise in coronavirus cases since President Salva Kiir Mayardit decided earlier this month to lift partial lockdown imposed in March by his government to curb the rapid spread of the diseases which has now killed half a million people around the world.
Senior government officials including First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny have been infected by the deadly virus.
Machar, his wife who is also the defense minister, Angelina Teny, and the ministry of information Michael Makuei Lueth are the only senior government officials to announce publicly that they have contracted the virus.
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