Indian National Infected With Coronavirus in UAE

Indian National Infected With Coronavirus in UAE

Liu Yujia, center, receives a bouquet of flowers from Dr. Hussein Al Rand, an under-secretary at the Ministry of Health, after she tested negative for the Coronavirus, as Consul General Li Xuhang of China looks on, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

An Indian national has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus in the UAE, bringing the total number of confirmed infection cases to eight, the country's health ministry has said.

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The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) said on Monday that the Indian national, who is an expat, was infected after he interacted with a recently diagnosed person.

"The Ministry of Health and Prevention announced today the eighth confirmed case of new coronavirus in the UAE, which is an Indian national who had interacted with a recently diagnosed person," it said in a tweet.

Last week, a family of four who arrived from Wuhan for a holiday in Dubai were diagnosed with coronavirus. A fifth patient, who also arrived from the Chinese city, was confirmed to have been infected with the virus, but is reportedly in a stable condition. China and countries around the world are scrambling to contain the spread of coronavirus which fiirst surfaced in Wuhan city in the Central Hubei province of China. Apart from China, two deaths have occurred in Hong Kong and the Philippines. Besides Germany, Britain and Italy, other European nations with cases of the virus include France, Russia, Belgium, Sweden, Finland and Spain.