HEALTH Secretary Francisco Duque 3rd on Thursday confirmed the country’s first case of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

Duque said a 38-year-old woman from Wuhan, China was found to be infected with the 2019-nCoV after her test results arrived from the Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia.

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