20 countries in Africa report over 150 cases

Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli greets guests at the launch of a military facility in Dar es Salaam on Friday. (Reuters)

Rwanda yesterday confirmed its first case of Covid-19, a day after Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Guinea and Ghana announced that patients in their countries had tested positive for the coronavirus.

There are now more than 150 cases of the virus in 20 African countries, according to the latest figures from the World Health Organisation.