Alarm status: The number of deaths from the Chinese virus increases - the first suspected case in Bremen, Germany

This was made known by the German media, according to which, by now, a woman is being treated in Bremen, who returned from China in early January.

Authorities have indicated that she is currently being treated in isolation in the hospital's intensive care unit.

“The patient is doing well clinically”, health officials have said, adding that there is still no confirmation of whether the coronavirus was first discovered in China.

Otherwise, the coronavirus epidemic has killed at least 82 people in China and is supposed to have affected more than 2,890 people.

The health crisis has caused authorities “to place at” quarantine at least 56 million people living in China's central Hubei province and cancel New Year's celebrations throughout the country.

After the explosion, scientists fear that more than 100,000 people may already be infected, considerably more than the official number.