Namibia’s Health Minister KALUMBI SHANGULA has announced that the first two patients to be diagnosed with COVID-19 have been cleared by health authorities after 79 days in the hospital.

“The couple’s recoveries mark the end of the chapter involving the first 16 cases.

The Romanian couple, who became known as case No. 1 and No. 2, baffled experts for staying “too long” in hospital after the 35-year-old man and his 25-year-old wife were diagnosed with the disease on March 14.

Namibia has so far reported 25 confirmed cases with 16 recoveries, nine active cases but no death.