China News Service, February 28. According to foreign media reports, on the 27th local time, officials from the Dutch Ministry of Health said that the country had the first confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia.
The Dutch National Institute of Public Health and the Environment issued an announcement saying that the patient had recently visited Italy and is currently being treated in isolation. The department said: "To prevent the epidemic from spreading further in the Netherlands, (public health authorities) will track close contacts of the infected and monitor them."