
Senegal have registered its first casualty of the dreaded coronavirus minutes ago.
Pope Diouf is among a legion of Covid-19 patients and was due to be relocated to France for treatment by his family this evening before he ended up kicking the bucket.
A football pundit, Diouf becomes Senegal’s first man to succumb to the pandemic that has affected a total 175 Senegalese as the numbers keeping soaring by each day.
Global statistics peg number of infected people at 837,104 with the virus killing 41,249 while over 176,000 people are believed to have recovered.