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Two residents of Mauritius who were recently repatriated from India have tested positive for COVID-19, the country’s first cases in nearly a month, the government announced late Sunday. The Indian Ocean island nation initially surged ahead of other East African countries in terms of caseload, hitting a peak of 332 just shy of six weeks into its outbreak.
But on May 13, after going more than two weeks without a new case, officials declared wary victory over the virus, with Health Minister Kailesh Jagutpal saying the country had “won the battle” but had “not yet won the war”.
The two new cases are part of a group of 149 Mauritians repatriated from New Delhi and Mumbai on May 9 and placed in quarantine on their return, said Dr Zouberr Joomaye, spokesman for a government committee formed to combat COVID-19.
The news “justifies all the precautionary measures taken by the government,” Joomaye told AFP.
“Can you imagine if these two people had been allowed to return home without going through quarantine here?”
Mauritius has now tallied 334 COVID-19 cases, with 10 deaths and 322 recoveries.
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