People wearing face masks walk outside Rafik Hariri hospital, where Lebanon’s first Covid-19 case is being quarantined, in Beirut, Lebanon February 21, 2020. — Reuters pic
Addressing a news conference, Hassan said the patient was taken directly to isolation from a plane arriving from the Iranian city of Qom on Thursday after exhibiting symptoms of the virus. The plane, a Mahan Air flight that arrived around 7.30pm yesterday, was carrying 125 passengers, a source at Rafic International Airport said.
An Iranian health ministry official said the likely source was Chinese workers in Qom who had recently travelled to China, where the epidemic originated.
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