JEN | @justearthnews | 15 Mar 2020, 03:29 am Print
Tashkent, March 15 (Sputnik) Uzbekistan has confirmed the first case of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in its citizen, who has recently returned from France, the country's Health Ministry said on Sunday.
"On March 15, at 06:00 a.m. [01:00 GMT] the Scientific Research Institute of Virology confirmed COVID-19 in an Uzbek citizen, who returned from France," the ministry said in a statement.
The authorities have already identified the people who have recently contacted the patient and those who took the same flight that brought him to Uzbekistan. The authorities are tracking them.
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France is among the European countries most affected by the pandemic. It has registered over 4,400 cases of the disease with 91 fatalities.
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