SUN, FEB 16 2020-theG&BJournal- – Egyptian Health Ministry confirmed Friday that a foreigner has tested positive for the COVID-19 and has been put in isolation at a hospital after he tested positive for the deadly disease.
Officials of the Health Ministry did not disclose the nationality of the victim
Egyptian Health Ministry said it had informed the World Health Organisation (WHO) and had taken all necessary preventative measures.
It did not give the nationality of the affected person or any other details.
In Europe, an 80-year old man has died in France in France, becoming the first fatality announced in the continental Europe. Reports say the man travelled from the Hubei province on January 16. He died of a lung infection sparked by the bug which caused his condition to rapidly deteriorate. French Health Minister Agnes Buzy confirmed the case today.
France has recorded 11 cases of the virus, out of a global total of 67,090.
In China, the National Health Commission Sunday said China’s daily new confirmed cases of the disease outside Hubei, the epicenter province in the outbreak, have been dropping for 12 consecutive days, A total of 166 new confirmed cases were reported on Saturday outside Hubei, the commission said.
The commission received reports of 2,009 new confirmed cases on Saturday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, including 1,843 in Hubei.
Meanwhile, a child born to a woman with coronavirus in China tested negative today for the respiratory disease. Medical workers at the hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an in China’s northwest Shaanxi Province, delivered the baby today, according to reports.
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