Health authorities in Ireland on Saturday confirmed the country's first case of coronavirus and said it was associated with travel from an affected area in northern Italy. The patient, a man in the eastern part of the country, is receiving appropriate medical care, Ireland's health department said in a statement. The British region of Northern Ireland, which shares an open border with the Irish republic, confirmed its first and so far only case of the virus on Thursday.
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