Albania confirms first coronavirus cases

schedule08:59 - 9 Mars, 2020

schedule 08:59 - 9 Mars, 2020

Albania  has reported its first coronavirus infections on Monday, in a father and son who had returned from Italy.

The Ministry of Health says that a father and son, 54 and 28 years old, are affected by the new virus, they had  traveled by personal car from Firenze to Albania.

The two were in stable condition and they did not have complications, the health ministry said just after midnight on.

Before the confirmation of the first two cases, health officials had tested some 60 cases with no sign of the virus. More than 400,000 Albanians live in neighboring Italy across the Adriatic Sea./abcnews.al

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