Tucking_Fypo

سلطنة مجرتين
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his 30s is being treated in hospital for the new coronavirus after visiting Italy, Swedish health authorities confirm.
The patient fell ill three days after returning to Sweden from northern Italy, with fever and respiratory symptoms, and contacted the clinic for infectious diseases, said Sweden's Public Health Agency (Folkhälsomyndigheten).

A test for the new coronavirus COVID-19 came back positive on Wednesday afternoon.

The man is said to be feeling well under the circumstances and is being kept in Sahlgrenska University Hospital for observation.

READ ALSO: How worried should you be about the coronavirus in Sweden?

It is believed he contracted the virus in Italy, where more than 370 cases have been confirmed.

Swedish health officials told a press conference on Wednesday evening that the man had been to one of the Italian regions affected by the coronavirus, but would not elaborate in order to protect his integrity.

Health authorities are working to track down anyone the man may have been in contact with.

"We believe our chances of identifying those who have been exposed to be good. It is not a large group. The man was not travelling as part of a large group and was not contagious when he travelled, but only fell ill in Sweden," Thomas Wahlberg, an infectious disease doctor, told the press conference.

Around 300 people have so far been tested for the coronavirus in Sweden and all tests apart from two – the latest case in Gothenburg and a woman in Jönköping on January 31st who self-quarantined after a trip to China – have come back negative.

The risk of contracting the coronavirus in Sweden is still believed to be small.

Sweden's Public Health Agency on Tuesday raised its risk level for the coronavirusspreading in Sweden from "very low" to "low", and upgraded the risk of individuals catching it abroad to "high".

READ ALSO: Sweden raises risk alert for coronavirus

It is important to note that the vast majority of patients recover.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), around 80 percent of people who contract the new coronavirus recover without needing special treatment.

Around one out of every six people who gets COVID-19 becomes seriously ill and develops difficulty breathing.

Only around two percent of cases are fatal. Older people and those with underlying medical problems like high blood pressure, heart problems or diabetes, are more likely to develop serious illness.

The coronavirus is primarily spread through airborne contact or contact with contaminated objects, and the symptoms include a cough, headache, fatigue, fever, aching and difficulty breathing.

If you think you have the illness, do not go to hospital or your doctor's surgery. Swedish health authorities are worried about potentially infected people turning up at hospitals and passing on the virus. Instead, call Sweden's national health advice hotline 1177.

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Jiron

wanaag
NABADOON
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The most important thing is to repeatedly wash your hands with soap and avoid touching your mouth, nose and eyes. Insha'allah this illnesses never happens to us :)
 

Ras

It's all so tiresome
VIP
The London tube must be ridden with the virus. Hundreds of people squeezed into a shitty ventilated metal box.

AUN to londoners.
 
All these viruses are fake and made man in labs like AIDs/HIV. Remember the uproar and scare tactics used by the media about the Ebola and Zika viruses, and somehow all these viruses just managed to "disappear" from the face of the earth, never to be heard about again.
 

SOMALIKNIGHT

Golan Heights belong to Syria
I cannot just like the flu or any other sickness, I would not. Why do they get near the healthy people with their viruses? Why can't they stay home? There was a indayare near me coughing I remain vigilant. I know someone who had the swine flu and everyone still remembers it and still treat him differently.
 
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