The headquarters of the German company, Webasto, in Stockdorf near Munich. Two employees of the company tested positive for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus, authorities said on Jan. 28, 2020. Michael Dalder/Reuters
German health officials said the country’s first coronavirus patient got the virus through human transmission.
The 33-year-old man, who lives near Starnberg, just south of Munich, caught the Wuhan coronavirus from a work colleague. They traveled together to a company training in the state of Bavaria last week.