BANGKOK - A Chinese visitor to Thailand has been confirmed to be infected with a new strain of coronavirus that has been linked to a pneumonia outbreak in central China, health officials said Monday. The U.N.’s World Health Organization said Thai officials have reported that a traveller from the Chinese city of Wuhan has been hospitalized in Thailand with the virus. Thai Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said it appears to be the first confirmed case of the virus found outside China, the Bangkok Post newspaper and other Thai media reported. Her coronavirus was confirmed Sunday by a laboratory test, Anutin said. A statement issued Monday by the Geneva-based World Health Organization said it is working with officials in Thailand and China following the report of the confirmed case outside China.

Source: thestar January 13, 2020 16:41 UTC