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Suspected Jersey coronavirus case: negative

THE JERSEY patient who was isolated with 'flu-like symptoms' last week does not have the coronavirus, the island's government has said.

Jersey general hospital. Picture by Job Guegan. (27130474)
Jersey general hospital. Picture by Job Guegan. (27130474) / Guernsey Press

A spokesperson for the Health Department said: 'We have had confirmation that the patient who was tested for possible coronavirus last week has had their test results back as negative.'

The patient had recently returned to Jersey from a country affected by coronavirus and was quarantined.

Coronavirus has now killed more than 800 people - the vast majority in mainland China - and infected 34,800 others.

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