Coronavirus: Benin president says poverty could hinder prevention

The impact of Covid-19 is continuing to be felt across sub-Saharan Africa.

In Benin, President Patrice Talon said it would be difficult to enforce prevention measures because people were too poor to cope with them. Recent student protests calling for classes to be halted due to the virus left one dead.

In Nigeria, the petroleum regulator has ordered oil and gas companies to reduce their offshore workforce to try to stop the spread of the disease on rigs.

The African Union intervention force in Somalia is restricting access to its base camp in the capital Mogadishu.

And in South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa travelled to a remote resort in Limpopo province to oversee the release from quarantine of dozens of people who had returned from the Chinese city of Wuhan.