German virus patient is case of human-to-human transmission in Germany

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MUNICH, Germany, Jan 28, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Germany’s first confirmed
coronavirus patient caught the disease from a Chinese colleague who visited
Germany last week, officials said on Tuesday, in the first human-to-human
transmission on European soil, according to an AFP tally.

The Chinese employee, a woman from Shanghai, “started to feel sick on the
flight home on January 23”, Andreas Zapf, head of the Bavarian State Office
for Health and Food Safety, said at a press conference.

A 33-year-old German, with whom she had attended a meeting in Bavaria,
tested positive for the virus on Monday evening.