Beijing (AFP)

Here is the list of countries and territories that have announced confirmed cases of disease due to the new coronavirus since its spread from the Chinese city of Wuhan, where it appeared in December.

- CHINA -

A total of 5,974 people were infected in China, where 132 patients died, according to the latest official report on January 29.

- Eight cases have been recorded in the Hong Kong Autonomous Region. Several of these people stayed in Wuhan.

- Seven cases have been reported in the autonomous region of Macau. The first was announced on January 22. She is a 52-year-old businesswoman who arrived three days earlier by train from the neighboring Chinese city of Zhuhai.

- ASIA-PACIFIC REGION -

Thailand

Authorities announced 14 confirmed cases on January 28. It is the most affected country after China. They are all Chinese, except a 73-year-old Thai woman who had stayed in Wuhan.

Taiwan

A total of seven cases have been reported. The latest are two Chinese women who arrived on the island on January 22 as part of a group trip.

Singapore

Seven cases confirmed to date, people recently arrived from Wuhan.

Japan

Authorities confirmed seven cases on January 28, including the first of human-to-human transmission, a man in his 60s who transported tourists from the Wuhan region in his bus.

Australia

Five cases have been confirmed there. The 5th case (a 21-year-old man who arrived in Sydney directly from Wuhan) was reported on January 27. The first patient is a man who arrived from Wuhan in Melbourne a week earlier.

Malaysia

This country has reported four cases, all Chinese from Wuhan going on vacation to Malaysia. Among them, a 66-year-old woman and two young boys who arrived two days earlier via Singapore, as well as a 40-year-old man who entered a coach with a group of Chinese tourists.

South Korea

Authorities raised a fourth case on Monday. The four patients, three Chinese and one South Korean, all come from Wuhan.

Vietnam

Authorities have confirmed two cases. They are two Chinese, a man who arrived in Vietnam on January 13 from Wuhan and his son living in Ho Chi Minh City, whom he then infected.

Cambodia

The Ministry of Health reported a case on January 27, a 60-year-old man arrived from Wuhan.

Nepal

One case was reported on January 24. He is a 32-year-old man who returned on January 9 from Wuhan, who left the hospital cured.

Sri Lanka

The first case was confirmed there on January 27: a 43-year-old Chinese tourist arrived from Hubei province.

- AMERICAS -

United States

Five people were infected with the virus there. They all "traveled directly to Wuhan," according to the authorities.

Canada

Canada reported its first confirmed case on Monday, a man who traveled to Wuhan and allegedly infected his wife, whose illness remains to be confirmed.

- EUROPE -

France

Four confirmed cases of contamination by the new coronavirus. The first three cases - the first in Europe - were confirmed on January 24, one in Bordeaux (southwest), the other two in Paris. These three patients had recently traveled to China.

A fourth case was announced on January 28: an elderly Chinese tourist hospitalized in Paris in serious condition.

Germany

Four cases. Three cases were announced Tuesday evening in Bavaria, employees of the same company where a first case had been identified in the morning. Local health authorities had specified that this first patient had been infected by another person on German soil itself, which represents the first transmission of the virus identified on European soil.

- MIDDLE EAST -

United Arab Emirates

At least four cases confirmed on Wednesday, all members of a Chinese family from Wuhan.

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