Today, GNA’s Minister of Health Ehmeed Ben Omar visited Libya’s first Coronavirus case, accompanied by the head of Tripoli University Hospital Bahlul Bin Ramadan.

It should be reminded tha the patient is a 73-year-old man who had returned from a visit to Saudi Arabia on 5 March.

The National Center for Disease Control announced late Tuesday the first confirmed case of novel coronavirus in Libya.

“The patient underwent the Coivd-19 tests and proved positive,” the Health Minister said in a brief statement late Tuesday.