Visitor to Thailand has new Coronavirus strain

A Chinese visitor to Thailand has been confirmed to be infected with a new strain of coronavirus that has been linked to a pneumonia outbreak in central China, health officials said Monday.

U.N.'s World Health Organization said Thai officials have reported that a traveller from Chinese city of Wuhan has been hospitalized in Thailand with virus.

outbreak of virus has been traced to Wuhan, where it affected several dozen people who h been to a major meat and seafood market.

Thai Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said it appears to be first confirmed case of virus found outside China, Bangkok Post newspaper and or Thai media reported.

He identified infected tourist as a 61-year-old woman whose symptoms were detected on arrival at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport last Wednesday.

Her coronavirus was confirmed Sunday by a laboratory test, Anutin said.

She has been treated at an isolation ward at a state health facility outside of Bangkok, and longer has any fever or respiratory symptoms, he said.

Eight or people with possible symptoms have also been held at facility, he said, but ne has been confirmed to have virus.