Governance and Society

First case of Corona virus confirmed in the Faroe Islands

By Torleif Joensen March 4, 2020

Health Minister Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen on Wednesday confirmed the Faroe Islands’s first case of the coronavirus, saying that a man contracted the virus while in a conference in Paris.

The man and his family are now isolated in their home in Tórshavn.

Read also: Two people tested for the corona virus – results came back negative

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