意大利報告了第七個冠狀病毒死亡個案。
外交部表示，因冠狀病毒, 中國是唯一一個建議人們避免不必要旅行的國家。
在其網站上的更新中，指出意大利確診的冠狀病毒病例有所增加。
因此，意大利政府已對科多諾，卡斯蒂廖內達達，卡薩爾普斯特倫戈，豐比奧，馬萊諾，索馬格利亞，貝爾托尼科，特拉諾瓦·德·帕塞里尼，卡斯特爾杰倫多和聖菲奧拉諾 (Codogno, Castiglione d’Adda, Casalpusterlengo, Fombio, Maleo, Somaglia, Bertonico, Terranova dei Passerini, Castelgerundo and San Fiorano) 等城鎮實行旅行限制。
外交部因此建議公民不要前往這些城鎮。
衛生部首席醫學官表示，他預計歐洲疾病控制中心今天的會議將對意大利的冠狀病毒爆發進行檢視，可能會導致對歐洲國家的建議有所改變。
霍洛漢 (Dr Tony Holohan) 表示，衛生部門將做出相應回應並更新其建議。
他說，愛爾蘭仍處於遏制階段，鑑於事情的發展，隔離檢疫不屬於衛生部計劃的一部分。
他說，最有可能發生的情況是，將出現少量病例，醫院已經準備好應對這種情況。至今已進行79項測試, 結果為陰性。
霍洛漢說，識別這種疾病的最佳方法是, 對於那些到冠狀病毒爆發地區旅行並且有症狀的人，要報告這些症狀。
Italy reported its seventh death from the coronavirus.
The Department of Foreign Affairs says mainland China is the only country it is advising people to avoid non-essential travel to, due to coronavirus.
In an update on its website, it says there has been an increase in the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Italy.
As a result of this, it says the Italian government has placed travel restrictions on the towns of Codogno, Castiglione d’Adda, Casalpusterlengo, Fombio, Maleo, Somaglia, Bertonico, Terranova dei Passerini, Castelgerundo and San Fiorano).
The Department says that for the moment, therefore, it is advising citizens not to travel to these towns.
The Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health said he anticipates that today’s meeting of the European Centre of Disease Control to examine the outbreak of coronavirus in Italy, is likely to lead to some changes in advice to European countries.
Dr Tony Holohan said the department will respond accordingly and update its advice.
He said Ireland remains in a containment phase and that as things stand enforced quarantine is not part of the plans the Health Service Executive.
He said the most likely scenario is that cases will appear in small numbers and hospitals are ready and prepared to deal with that. So far, 79 tests have been reported negative.
Dr Holohan said that the best chance of identifying the disease is for those who have travelled from an area with coronavirus and have symptoms is to report those symptoms and feel free to do so.
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