Poland has announced its first confirmed case of the new coronavirus, highlighting the disease’s spread around the world in spite of health officials’ efforts to contain it.
Health Minister, Lukasz Szumowski, said that the patient is feeling well and is being treated in a hospital in Zielona Gora in the west of the country.
“The patient recently visited Germany.
The patient’s family, and people the man had contact with, are being quarantined,’’ the minister said.
In total, 500 people are being currently quarantined in Poland, while 68 people suspected of having contracted the virus are treated in hospitals.