Mauritania has affirmed that a French national has passed away from the coronavirus, the first COVID-19-related death for the country, Health Minister Mohamed Ould Hamid announced on Tuesday.
The minister stated that the deceased was a 47-year-old French woman of Mauritanian decent. She reached in the country on March 16 and self-isolated for suspicion that she might be affected after feeling tiredness.
The official stated that the woman did not realise that she was infected with the coronavirus until her health condition worsened.
She died on the way to the hospital.
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