Xinhua News Agency, Santiago, March 8 (Reporter Yin Nan) Chile has added one new confirmed case of new pneumonia on the 8th, with a total of 8 confirmed cases.

The Chilean Ministry of Health issued a statement on the same day saying that the patient was 83 years old and had had close contact with an American visitor who was in the incubation period of new coronary pneumonia. The U.S. visitor returned with severe symptoms and tested positive for the new crown virus. The Chilean patient was diagnosed and diagnosed with respiratory symptoms.