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Sri Lankan health authorities said on Monday that the country has had its first confirmed case of a person infected with the new virus from China.
The patient is a Chinese woman in her 40s who arrived in Sri Lanka last week as a tourist from China’s Hubei province, said Dr Sudath Samaraweera, chief epidemiologist of the country’s health ministry.
The woman was suffering from a fever when she was admitted Saturday to the island nation’s Infectious Disease Hospital, a state-run facility that treats people suffering from potentially deadly infectious illnesses.
Sri Lanka became a major travel destination for Chinese tourists in recent years. Many Chinese nationals also work on Chinese-funded infrastructure projects – including a seaport, port city and motorways.


The new pneumonia-like illness originated in the city of Wuhan in Hubei in December.
More than 2,800 people have been sickened in China by the new virus and at least 82 people have died.


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Woman in her 40s arrived in country last week and had a fever when admitted to hospital on Saturday
Sri Lanka has become major travel destination for Chinese tourists in recent years



Woman in her 40s arrived in country last week and had a fever when admitted to hospital on Saturday.


China coronavirus: Sri Lanka confirms first case, a tourist from Hubei

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} Woman in her 40s arrived in country last week and had a fever when admitted to hospital on Saturday Sri Lanka has become major travel destination for Chinese tourists in recent years

Woman in her 40s arrived in country last week and had a fever when admitted to hospital on Saturday

Sri Lanka has become major travel destination for Chinese tourists in recent years