TOKYO (Bloomberg): A man who had travelled to Japan from the central Chinese city of Wuhan was infected with a new pneumonia-causing virus, widening a Sars-like outbreak first reported in China less than three weeks ago.
The resident of Kanagawa prefecture, aged in his 30s, developed fever on Jan 3 before returning to Japan on Jan 6, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare said in a statement on Thursday (Jan 16).
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