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RABAT, May 15 (KUNA) -- Mauritanian authorities announced on Friday that cases' count of coronavirus infection climbed to 26 after recording six new cases.
The director of public health Sidi Ould Alzehav said in a statement to the Mauritanian news agency,that local authorities must take instant precautionary and preventive measures against the pandemic because it was spreading rapidly across the nation.
Mauritanian authorities earlier declared recording 20 infection cases. Seven of the patients recovered but two others died. (end)
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