#CoronavirusChallenge: South Africans React As The Country Records Its First Case

Tobi Adebayo 

South Africans on Twitter are trending the hashtag #CoronaVirusChallenge following reports of the country’s first recorded case of the deadly virus.

The case was first detected in the country’s eastern Kwa-Zulu Natal province.

The patient was identified as a 38-year-old man who visited Italy with his wife and has two children.

However, South Africans are optimistic that the virus will not become full blown in the country and are making jokes about the situation on Twitter with the hashtag #CoronaVirusChallenge.

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See some tweets below:

Let it not get us off guard #CoronaVirusChallenge pic.twitter.com/0ejGKra5FH

— continent📌 (@africa_oj) March 5, 2020

This Coronavirus Came To The Wrong Country looking for attention, it should go somewhere else where people will take it serious. South Africans will never take anything serious. #COVID19 #CoronavirusInSA #coronavirus #coronavirussa #coronaviruschallenge pic.twitter.com/5eO0bT68C4

— Man’s NOT Barry Roux  (@AdvoBarryRoux) March 5, 2020

Who Would Have Known That Even Our Death Was Gonna Be "Made In China" 🤔#CoronavirusInSA #CoronaVirusChallenge pic.twitter.com/qravql1WkE

— Stanley Maphosa (@IamStanMaps) March 6, 2020

I'm not sure if #CoronaVirusSA will find us alive from all this laughing just going through the TL😂😂😂😂. South Africans are a crazy bunch, forget everything else we are generally happy people.#CoronaVirusChallenge#CoronaVirusSA#CoronavirusInSA pic.twitter.com/lyWvqj7uXU

— FLaGGa🇿🇦 (@floyd_phoks) March 6, 2020

#CoronaVirusChallenge
We did it with Ebola, we did it with Listeriosis, we did it with Boko Haram, we definitely will did it with #CoronavirusInSA can I get an Amen. pic.twitter.com/kiz4CskGqx

— Zalay (@m_zalay) March 6, 2020