This was reported in the administration of the Germersheim district (federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate).

It is clarified that on February 1, 115 citizens of Germany were evacuated from Wuhan, who were immediately quarantined.

“On the morning of February 2, 2020, the local leadership in Germersheim received information that the results of the coronavirus test in two people gave a positive result,” the press release said.

Earlier in Bavaria, the eighth case of coronavirus infection was confirmed by a company employee in the Starnberg district, where six previously sick people worked.

Oleg Yurin, an epidemiologist and senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, in an interview with NSN, excluded the possibility of infection with coronavirus upon receipt of the package.