Dand according to the statement, the woman was referred to the Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João (CHUSJ), where “biological samples will be collected” for analysis at that hospital.
Another suspected case in Portugal of infection for the new coronavirus of a person also from Milan was on Monday declared negative after tests carried out in the CHUSJ.
The remaining 13 suspected cases in the country were negative after analysis.
The outbreak of Covid-19, which started in China at the end of last year, has already killed 2,627 people and infected more than 79,000, according to health authorities in some 30 countries affected.
In addition to 2,592 dead in mainland China, there are fatalities in Iran, South Korea, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, Philippines, France and Taiwan. In Italy, seven people died due to Covid-19.
A Portuguese crew member of a cruise ship that is quarantined in the port of Yokohama, Japan, has been declared infected and will be transferred to a Japanese hospital on Tuesday.
The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of Covid-19 as an international public health emergency and alerted on Monday to a possible pandemic, considering the sudden increase in cases in Italy, South Korea and Iran as very worrying.
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