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Panama confirmed this Friday the first positive case of the covid-19 variant detected in South Africa.
This was announced by the Ministry of Health this Friday in a statement.
"This is a 40-year-old passenger, born in Zimbabwe, who entered the country on January 5 from South Africa and had previously made a stopover in the Netherlands before arriving in Panama," the entity said in the official note.
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After testing positive for the variant, the patient remained isolated, complying with the Panama protocol, according to the Ministry of Health.
To date, Panama registers 4,944 deaths related to covid-19 and 305,752 confirmed cases.
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