Ivorian Defence Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, has contracted coronavirus, reports from the West African nation say.
A sources in the former French colony say the Minister, a right hand man of President Alhassan Ouattara, has been quarantined.
Côte d’Ivoire has recorded several cases of the coronavirus, forcing its neighbor Liberia to close its borders to it.
The sources in Abidjan say there has been a protest targeting coronavirus testing centre.
-DGNonline
