Yesterday Brazil registered the first case of coronavirus. The rebuttal test of a patient who had been reported as a suspected case tonight also tested positive, Folha de S.Paulo reports.
The information was confirmed with a source involved in the process. Earlier, the man had tested positive for the virus at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, in São Paulo.
With that, Brazil becomes the first country in Latin America with a confirmed case of the new virus that has already killed 2,765 people in the world.