Croatia reports first case of novel coronavirus in Balkans

Croatia’s prime minister announces his country’s first confirmed case of the new coronavirus, the first in the Balkans region.

“It has been confirmed that the first patient was infected with the COVID-19 virus,” Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic says at a press conference at a hospital in Zagreb.

The patient is a young man “showing mild symptoms,” he adds.

— AFP

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