Algeria is not planning to ban public
protests or suspend flights to
Italy after the country's first case of the coronavirus was identified in an Italian man, a health ministry official said on Wednesday.
Speaking at a news conference in Algiers, Djamel Fouar, director of prevention and control of communicable diseases, said authorities were monitoring everyone who had been in touch with the 61-year-old patient.
The man is from Milan in northern Italy, where an outbreak has been centered, and traveled through Algiers to Ouargla in southern Algeria which is a center for the oil and gas industry.