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Authorities on Wednesday were trying to identify and locate everyone who came into contact over the past two days with a 38-year-old woman who became the first patient in Greece to test positive for the novel coronavirus, in the northern port city of Thessaloniki.

President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday that there has been no confirmed novel coronavirus case in Romania so far, indicating that it has been decided to supplement the control measures in addition to the measures already taken. "As I speak, there is no confirmed case of infection with the virus in Romania.

Greek authorities have confirmed the first case of infection with the new coronavirus, Reuters quoted TASS as saying.

The infected is a 38-year-old woman who returned from Italy. She is hospitalized in Thessaloniki.

The information was released by the country's health minister.

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The United States has officially announced the deadline for the production of a coronavirus vaccine, RIA Novosti reported.

In the United States, a coronavirus vaccine can be tested in a month and a half, and it will be ready for mass use in a year and a half, said Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institutes of Health.

The brother of a boy, who was diagnosed with coronavirus yesterday after returning from Milan where he and his girlfriend were at the Champions League game, got infected, "Jutarnji list" reports, citing Minister Beros' confirmation.
The girl was confirmed to be negative for the coronavirus.

Turkey has yet to see any confirmed case of the coronavirus, but that does not mean there will never be any, said the country's top health official on Feb. 26, a day after a plane carrying 132 Turkish passengers flying from Tehran landed in Ankara, all of whom are being kept under quarantine.

In relation to the situation with the new coronavirus COVID-19 in the north of Italy, Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Bulgarian citizens who reside or travel to Italy, to travel only as a matter of last resort to the regions with confirmed cases of coronavirus, MoFA said on February 23, quoted by BNT.

Greek shares dropped 6 percent on Monday after a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in neighbouring Italy, analysts said.

"The country's proximity to Italy has clearly triggered some concern," Manos Hatzidakis, analyst at Athens-based Beta Securities, told Reuters.

The man in his eighties was hospitalized for a disease unrelated to coronavirus, RAI reports.
The number of infected people is expected to rise on hourly basis, "Corriere della Sera" writes, adding that the nightmare in Italy began on Friday morning when the first infected person passed away.

152 people have been infected in Italy until today, making this country the third most infected country in the world, according to the Index.
China, with more than 77.000 people infected, still holds first place, followed by South Korea, which is second with 602 infected.
Italy overtook Japan today, with 153 people infected.