Greece reports tenth Covid-19 case

Greece's Health Ministry confirmed on Thursday morning its tenth Covid-19 case.

It involves a Greek woman who had recently traveled with the man diagnozed as the ninth case of the new coronavirus to Israel and Egypt, authorities said.

The patient has been transferred to an isolation unit at a hospital of Patras, western Greece.

Public health officials on Wednesday started tracing everyone believed to have come into close contact with Greece's ninth confirmed case, a 65-year-old Greek man who is being treated in the same hospital.

Among those to be tracked down and tested are 53 people who had traveled on the same bus as him.

According to sources, the man is being treated for a serious respiratory infection. He visited a hospital in Amaliada on Sunday and was referred to Patra's University Hospital where he was initially kept in an open ward as he...