Japan has confirmed the first case of a newly identified virus behind a pneumonia outbreak that has hospitalised more than 40 people in China and a tourist in Thailand.
According to Japan’s health ministry, the Sars-like coronavirus was identified in a resident of Kanagawa prefecture, south of Tokyo, who returned from a trip to the Chinese city of Wuhan on January 6.
The man aged in his thirties, who was hospitalised on January 10 and discharged on Wednesday, had not visited the wholesale seafood market in Wuhan, which has been identified as the centre of the outbreak that has so far affected more than 40 people.
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