'Mongolia has announced its first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, the country's state news agency Montsame reported Tuesday.
The case involves a French national who arrived in Mongolia on a flight from Moscow to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital city, on March 2.
Mongolia's Minister of Health D. Sarangerel said that the French national, who first showed symptoms on March 7, ignored the advice of local health professionals for a 14-day quarantine and went outside, according to the report in Montsame.
The patient has now been put under isolation in Dornogobi province and remains in a "relatively stable" condition, the report added.
Authorities are tracking down the other passengers onboard the same flight as the French national.'
- CNN, Akanksha Sharma in Hong Kong,
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