French Coronavirus Case Points to Limited Human Spread
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The novel coronavirus that has killed more than half the 34 people it’s known to have infected appears capable of limited human-to-human spread, the World Health Organization said, as France reported a second case.
The patient, who is hospitalized in an isolated ward, probably caught the pneumonia-causing virus from an infected patient in a hospital room they shared in Valenciennes, in northeast France, in late April, the French Health Ministry and the WHO said yesterday.