Tanzania has reported two new coronavirus cases raising the total to three, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has confirmed.

Majaliwa on Wednesday told journalists that the two patients are foreign nationals from the US and Germany.

One case was confirmed in Dar es Salaam and one in Zanzibar, according to Majaliwa.
The country confirmed its first case of the coronavirus pandemic on Monday in the northern town of Arusha.

Kenya Covid-19 cases rose to seven on Wednesday after confirming three more infections.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said two of the cases were a couple that travelled from Madrid, Spain on March 4 through Dubai, arriving in Kenya on the March 5.

The third case is a Burundian national who travelled from Dubai, UAE to Kenya. He arrived on March 17 and was picked up by a surveillance team, Mr Kagwe said.

"We are tracing persons who may have been in contact with the patients," he said.
He noted that all cases so far are imported.

Reporting by The EastAfrican and The Citizen