German Minister: Four Workers Infected With Coronavirus Showing Mild Symptoms

German Minister: Four Workers Infected With Coronavirus Showing Mild Symptoms
German Minister of Health Jens Spahn arrive at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi
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BERLIN—Four people in Bavaria who contracted coronavirus after a colleague from China visited their workplace were showing “very mild” symptoms, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Jan. 29.

In one of the first known cases of person-to-person transmission outside China, a 33-year-old man apparently contracted the virus on Jan. 21 during a training session with a Chinese colleague, Bavarian officials said. The three other patients were being monitored in isolation at a clinic in Munich.