Germany has declared its first confirmed case of the Coronavirus, raising concerns about the spreading of the flu-like virus after the death toll in China climbed to 106.
Bavaria’s health ministry said late on Monday that a man in the town of Starnberg, 30 kilometers southwest of Munich, had been confirmed as suffering from the virus.
The patient is in “good condition” and isolated under medical observation, the ministry in the southern state said in a statement posted on its website.
It did not disclose any details of the patient’s age or nationality.
Cases linked to people who traveled from Wuhan have been confirmed in a dozen countries, from Japan to the United States but no fatalities outside China have been reported.
German Health Minister Jens Spahn said he was not surprised the virus had reached Germany but the case in Bavaria showed how well prepared the authorities were.
He said the authorities were doing everything possible to stop the spread of the virus.
