According to RTL, the country's Prime Minister Andrei Plenkovich announced the virus came to Croatia after a meeting of the crisis headquarters to counter the spread of the disease.
“The first case of coronavirus was detected in Zagreb, in the hospital, Dr. Fran Mikhailovich. We are talking about a young man and a mild form of the disease. He is now in good condition, ”RIA Novosti quoted Plenkovich as saying.
Along with this, about two infections in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, told the television and radio corporation ORF. Currently, patients are in the infectious disease ward of the Innsbruck clinic.
Earlier, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhan Ghebreyesus, estimated the potential of the new coronavirus infection COVID-2019 to a pandemic.
Also, WHO said that the spread of the new coronavirus outside of China indicates a reduction in the ability to contain the epidemic.
The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.