Germany has confirmed its first novel coronavirus patient who contracted the disease from a Chinese colleague who visited the country last week.
Officials said this was the first human-to-human transmission of the virus on the European soil.
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The carrier of the virus was a Chinese woman employee, who hails from Shanghai.
“She started to feel sick on the flight home on January 23,” Andreas Zapf, head of the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety, said at a press conference.
The 33-year-old German who met the Chinese woman in Bavaria is the first confirmed coronavirus case in Germany.
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