Two Slovaks evacuated from Wuhan quarantined in Banská Bystrica

Coronavirus has not been confirmed in Slovakia.

Medical staff admits two Slovak patients evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan to a Banská Bystrica hospital, central Slovakia, on February 3.Medical staff admits two Slovak patients evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan to a Banská Bystrica hospital, central Slovakia, on February 3. (Source: TASR)

They were transported from the Chinese city of Wuhan to France, with stops in Brussels and Prague. From there, ambulances took them to a Banská Bystrica hospital in central Slovakia.

Two Slovaks were admitted to the department of infectology at F.D. Roosvelt Hospital in central Slovakia in the early hours of February 3 under strict security measures.

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“The health condition of both is good,” the hospital’s spokesperson Ružena Maťašeje said, as quoted by the TASR newswire. She added no signs of acute respiratory disease have appeared.

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Despite this, both of them will spend 14 days in quarantine. Samples were sent to a laboratory. The Slovaks were evacuated from China alongside 250 Europeans from 30 different countries on February 2.

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