Costa Rican Ministry of Health confirms first case of coronavirus

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(CNN Spanish) - This Friday, the Ministry of Health of Costa Rica reported the first case of coronavirus. This is a case imported from a 49-year-old woman from the United States.

The Ministry of Health also reported that the US citizen is together with her husband isolated in a hotel in the capital, San José. The ministry added that the possible cases of two Costa Rican women were ruled out after receiving the laboratory results.

It is the first case in Central America.

There are already more than 100,000 cases in the world of coronavirus. Some 3,300 people have died from the virus, the vast majority of them in mainland China.