First Wuhan virus case confirmed in Germany

BERLIN: The first case of the deadly coronavirus spreading in China has been confirmed in Germany's southern Bavaria region, the Bavarian health ministry said Monday .

"A man in the Starnberg region has been infected with the new coronavirus," a spokesman for the ministry said, adding that he is under surveillance in an isolation ward.On Sunday, German news outlet Welt cited a spokesman for health minister Jens Spahn as saying the country was ready to deal with the outbreak.

"Germany is well prepared for a pandemic," he said. "There are clear pandemic plans, regular exercises and the resources to react quickly and effectively. "We are constantly coordinating with all relevant national and international authorities on the situation." Cases have been identified in more than a dozen other countries, including the first confirmed patients in Canada and Sri Lanka.The United States urged its citizens to"reconsider" all travel to China and told them not to go to central Hubei province, where the pneumonia-like virus emerged.

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