France has also been hit by Wuhan’s coronavirus. French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn confirmed that a patient who is hospitalized in Bordeaux tested positive and the same happened with others who are hospitalized in Paris.
They are the first cases of infected to appear in Europe.
“The Bordeaux patient is 48 years old, returned from China, where he passed through the city of Wuhan, and had symptoms on January 23,” said Agnes Buzyn, adding that the man resides in Gironde, is of Chinese origin and has been “in contact with a dozen people since he arrived in France “. He’s in isolation at the hospital.
“What matters is to contain the focus as quickly as possible,” said the minister.
Of the second case, little is known. He is a man who is hospitalized, in isolation, at the Bichat Hospital in Paris, and will also have been in China but, according to the minister, will not have gone to Wuhan.
Minister Agnes Buzyn says that more cases are likely to arise in Europe and the important thing is to detect them quickly and prevent them from spreading to others.
The new virus, which causes pneumonia, was detected in China in late 2019 and has already killed at least 25 people.
Two cases in the USA
In the USA and Asia, several cases are reported. A 60-year-old woman returned from the Chinese city of Wuhan to Chicago, has been infected with the new coronavirus, making it the second case in the United States, according to US officials.
The woman is hospitalized to prevent infections, “but she is clinically well,” US health officials in Chicago said, saying she has been trying to avoid public contact since returning from China.
This is the second case of the new coronavirus in the United States and the authorities say that there are still 11 people who have been tested with negative results and 50 patients who are under analysis, to check for signs of this type of virus detected in China in late 2019 and that it has already killed at least 25 people.
The first case in the USA, of a man in his 30s, had been detected near Seattle on the west coast after returning from Wuhan on 19 January and is now in a satisfactory condition.
Several countries are registering the first cases of contamination with the new coronavirus, as is the case in South Korea, where a 50-year-old man, who worked in Wuhan, showed positive results, Japan, where a 30-year-old man was hospitalized with positive signs, Singapore, a 66-year-old man and his 37-year-old son are also flagged.
Taiwan, with a 50-year-old woman, Thailand, where four cases (three Chinese and one Thai) and Vietnam, with the detection of the virus in two Chinese men (father and son), are other countries affected by the outbreak.
In Hong Kong, two people are hospitalized while waiting for results, and in Macau the authorities announced the first case on January 22, of a 52-year-old businesswoman, who arrived three days earlier on a train from the Chinese city of Zhuhai, having a second case has already been registered by the authorities.
In mainland China there are more than 800 infected people and about 1,000 suspected cases.
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