Lithuania has joined the fast-growing list of countries hit by the coronavirus.
It reported its first infection on Friday, in a woman who returned this week from a visit to Italy’s northern city of Verona, the government said, as the disease spreads rapidly worldwide.
In a statement, the Lithuanian government said the woman had been isolated in hospital in the northern town of Siauliai following her return on Monday.
She has been under observation since, and is showing only slight symptoms, with no elevated temperature at the moment, it added.
This comes on the same day an Italian was diagnosed with the virus in Lagos, Nigeria.
