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Belgium Confirms First Case of Coronavirus - Authorities

© AFP 2023 / NICOLAS MAETERLINCKSecurity personnel walk near the tarmac during the arrival of a plane carrying Belgian and European citizens repatriated from the coronavirus hot-zone in Wuhan, at the military airport in Melsbroek, on 2 February 2020. - A second plane chartered by Paris to bring back 250 people from Wuhan, including 65 French, landed in the afternoon of 2 February in Istres, where some of them, including the French, will be placed in quarantine. The A380 was then to take off for Belgium, according to a diplomatic source in Brussels. The aircraft will then take Belgian nationals of other nationalities to Melsbroek military airport, according to the same source.
Security personnel walk near the tarmac during the arrival of a plane carrying Belgian and European citizens repatriated from the coronavirus hot-zone in Wuhan, at the military airport in Melsbroek, on 2 February 2020. - A second plane chartered by Paris to bring back 250 people from Wuhan, including 65 French, landed in the afternoon of 2 February in Istres, where some of them, including the French, will be placed in quarantine. The A380 was then to take off for Belgium, according to a diplomatic source in Brussels. The aircraft will then take Belgian nationals of other nationalities to Melsbroek military airport, according to the same source. - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) -​ The patient is one of nine people who returned to Belgium from Wuhan on Sunday. All other evacuees tested negative for the virus.

Belgium has confirmed its first case of the new coronavirus after a Belgian who had recently returned from China’s Wuhan, the outbreak's epicentre, tested positive for the disease, Belgium’s Federal Public Service (FPS) said on Tuesday.

The new strain of coronavirus was first detected in December in Wuhan and has since spread to over 20 countries. The epidemic has already left over 420 people dead and over 20,000 infected.

Belgium is the ninth European country to have confirmed a coronavirus case on its soil. The other European countries that reported the virus are France, Germany, Finland, Italy, the UK, Sweden, Russia and Spain.

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