(Bloomberg) -- Egypt quarantined an unspecified number of passengers who had been on a Nile cruise boat after 12 tested positive for coronavirus, marking a sharp jump in the country’s total cases.
Authorities carried out tests after being alerted by the World Health Organization that a dual Taiwanese-U.S. citizen on the cruise was found to have the virus on her return home, state news agency MENA reported, citing a Health Ministry spokesman.
The dozen infected people were Egyptians, but officials didn’t give the nationalities of those quarantined.
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