According to TASS, citing the press service of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Protection, he was identified by a 48-year-old woman who flew from Italy on a Bologna – Chisinau flight.
The patient was hospitalized.
At the time of hospitalization, she had a fever, cough and acute respiratory failure.
Earlier, President of Moldova Igor Dodon said that the country's authorities may begin to punish for the rise in price of medicines and medical masks amid the panic around the coronavirus infection COVID-19.