Norway, Romania, Pakistan, Georgia and Northern Macedonia detected the first cases of nCoV, bringing the number of countries and territories appearing to translate into 46.

"I confirm the first two cases of nCoV infection in Pakistan. Both are being cared for according to standard protocols and are in stable condition," Pakistan Prime Minister Zafar Mirza's medical advisor wrote on Twitter yesterday. . The first positive case for nCoV was a 22-year-old male from Karachi who had been to neighboring Iran. The second case is one from the capital Islamabad.

Line Vold, an official at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, said yesterday in Oslo that the first case in the country was a person who returned from China last week. "This person is in good health and doesn't have any symptoms," she said.

Romania recorded the case as a man who had contact with an Italian last week. Health Minister Victor Costache said yesterday in a press conference in Bucharest that the person had no symptoms.

In Georgia, Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze said yesterday during a press conference in Tbilisi that a 50-year-old man was positive for nCoV after returning from Iran.

A 50-year-old woman who was in Italy for a month was the first case of nCoV in Northern Macedonia, the southeastern European country. Health Minister Venko Filipce yesterday told reporters at Skopje that she started having flu-like symptoms two weeks ago and had been to a hospital in Italy but had not been tested for the virus.

The Covid-19 outbreak appeared in 46 countries and territories after the outbreak in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Worldwide, more than 81,000 people have been infected, more than 2,700 have died and more than 30,000 have recovered.