Confirmed COVID-19 cases rise to six in Austria

Source: Xinhua| 2020-02-29 04:20:27|Editor: yan
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VIENNA, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- One more COVID-19 case was confirmed in the Austrian capital late on Friday, bringing the total number of the confirmed cases in the Alpine country to six.

The son of the couple who tested positive for the novel coronavirus Thursday has also tested positive, according to the office of City Councilor Peter Hacker. The couple's daughter has not been infected.

Both children are adolescents. The family is currently in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef hospital. Contrary to previous information, only the father was on vacation in an affected region in Italy, according to local media.

Meanwhile, 181 employees from the Rudolf Foundation, a municipal hospital where the first Viennese coronavirus patient had been treated for flu for ten days before a routine test showed that he was infected, tested negative for the coronavirus.

The other two cases were detected in the western state of Tyrol on Tuesday.

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