BREAKING: First coronavirus fatality in Europe as tourist dies in France
has claimed its first victim outside Asia after an elderly Chinese tourist died in France.
Ms Buzyn added the man arrived in France nine days earlier from Hubei – the province at the epicentre of the crisis in China. Ms Buzyn continued: ‘Her state of health is no longer cause for concern and she should be able to be released soon.’ He picked up the disease, now officially renamed as Covid-19, while attending a conference in Singapore and came back to the UK via a French ski resort.Mainland China’s death toll has now risen to 1,523.
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