Ghana has confirmed its first two confirmed cases of coronavirus as Gabon and Kenya confirmed their first cases.

Ghana’s Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu said two people who'd arrived from Norway and Turkey tested positive for the virus.

In Gabon, Government Spokesman Edgard Anicet Mboumbou Miyakou said the patient was a Gabonese man who’d arrived from France.

Ghanaian authorities have said their two patients are being kept in isolation and are in a stable condition.

They have also started the process of tracing everyone who was in contact with the two patients.

Gabon’s spokesman said the patient who had tested positive was feeling better – having displayed symptoms of cough, sore throat and breathing problems earlier.

He said the patient was in an isolation facility and the government was tracing those who had come into close contact with him.

Meanwhile, Kenya has confirmed that a woman who travelled into the country from the US has tested positive for coronavirus.

Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe said the patient arrived in the country on 5 March but was given a positive diagnosis on 12 March.

She had travelled from the US and transited in London, without leaving the airport, and was confirmed positive by Kenya's national influenza laboratory.

The minister said the patient was stable and “eating”, adding that her fever had gone down but she will be kept in isolation until she tests negative.

•Based on BBC reports.