January 28 (SeeNews) - North Macedonia has confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus strain first detected in the UK, health minister Venko Filipce said.
The patient is a 46-year-old man who first tested positive for Covid-19 on December 29 and recovered from the disease earlier in January, the health minister said in a post on Twitter on Wednesday.
The patient has not travelled outside the country and has not been in close contact with other people, Filipce added.
On Wednesday, the health minister said that 394 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the past 24 hours. The country has confirmed a total of 91,555 cases and 2,821 deaths so far.