Mexico confirms first 2 cases of coronavirus
Associated Press
Published: February 28, 2020, 8:08 am
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s assistant health secretary announced Friday that the country now has two confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.
Hugo Lopez-Gatell said one of the patients is in Mexico City and the other in the northern state of Sinaloa, and neither is seriously ill.
https://www.click2houston.com/health/2020/02/28/mexico-confirms-first-2-cases-of-coronavirus/
ISRAEL
An Israeli man who was on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship off the coast of Japan returned to Israel on Friday, where he was diagnosed as ill with the coronavirus. The man has been transferred to a quarantine.
The man was initially hospitalized in Japan, but upon his release and return to the country he had been tested positive for the virus. The man ****flew to Israel via a commerical flight of Turkish Airlines from Tokyo through Istanbul and then to Tel Aviv***. All the passengers who were with him on board flight TK53 and then TK84, which landed in Israel at 08:55 A.M., are requested to immediately enter a house quarantine of 14 days and report immediately to the Health Ministry.
wonder if the patient in Mexico city was near/around that positive Chinese tourist who was there several weeks ago...