The
Director of the Department of Infection Control and Environmental
Health Geir Bukholm and the Director of the Department of Infectious
Disease Epidemiology Line Vold speak during a news conference about the
spread of the coronavirus in their country, at the Institute of Public
Health in Oslo, Norway, February 26, 2020. NTB Scanpix/Terje Bendiksby
via REUTERS
OSLO (Reuters) -
Norway’s Public Health Agency (FHI) said on Wednesday that one person
had tested positive for coronavirus and was being kept isolated at home,
in what was the country’s first confirmed case.
The person had returned from China late last week, but did not appear ill and was unlikely to infect others, the agency said.
“This
person is not showing symptoms but ... was tested after returning from
the region of China where the outbreak began,” FHI director Line Vold
told a news conference.
The number of new infections inside China
- the source of the outbreak - was for the first time overtaken by
those elsewhere on Wednesday as the virus spread to a growing number of
countries.
The disease has infected about 80,000 people and killed more than 2,700, the vast majority in China.
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