BERLIN - Authorities in Germany have confirmed the country’s first case of the new virus that emerged in central China. The ministry said it considers the risk to the general population in Bavaria to be “low.”Germany is the second European country to report a confirmed case of the virus. Authorities in France confirmed three cases in recent days —all Chinese citizens who recently returned from travels there. A spokesman for Bavaria’s Health Ministry, Joerg Saeuberlich, was unable to say whether the Bavarian case involved recent travel to China. He said authorities to provide new details at a news conference in Munich at 10 a.m. (0900 GMT).

Source: thestar January 28, 2020 06:33 UTC