German Man Catches The Deadly Coronavirus WITHOUT Going To China

More than 4,500 people around the world are now confirmed to have caught the coronavirus and 106 people have died, all of them in China. Germany, Sri Lanka and Cambodia yesterday became the latest countries to declare infections

Daily Mail: Now German man catches the deadly coronavirus WITHOUT going to China: Europe records its first case of human-to-human transmission as Hong Kong BANS travel to the mainland and Australian celebrity hotel goes into lockdown amid worldwide fears

* The 33-year-old man caught his illness from a colleague who travelled to Germany from Shanghai
* She had recently visited her parents in Wuhan, the centre of the outbreak, and fell ill on her flight home
* Two other men have been infected despite not travelling to China – one in Japan and one in Vietnam
* Hong Kong's chief, Carrie Lam, today said trains and ferries to the Chinese mainland would be stopped
* Hong Kong will also halve the number of flights to China and stop giving visas to visitors from China
* In Australia the Peppers Broadbeach hotel on the Gold Coast was visited by hazmat-clad paramedics today

A German man infected with the Wuhan coronavirus has become the first person in Europe to catch the virus without even going to China.

The 33-year-old caught the disease in his home country on January 21 from a colleague who was visiting from China and later became ill on her flight home. She was from Shanghai but had recently visited her parents in Wuhan.

Fears of the deadly coronavirus, which has now infected more than 4,500 people, spreading around the world are growing as the German man's case is one of four – men in Vietnam, Japan and Taiwan have also been infected at home.

Countries around the world are starting to cut ties with China and pull their citizens out of the crisis-hit Hubei region, where the virus emerged in the city of Wuhan.

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WNU Editor: This patient never went to China. He caught it from someone he knows who had arrived from China. This is raising red flags everywhere.