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OUAGADOUGOU, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso has confirmed its first two cases of COVID-19, Minister of Health Claudine Louge announced Monday evening during a press conference.
According to Louge, the two patients are a couple and the wife recently returned from France. The patients now are quarantined in a local hospital in Ouagadougou, capital of the country.
A third person who is a close contact is under observation, the minister added.
