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A Brussels resident has tested positive for the new coronavirus, marking the third confirmed infection of the outbreak in Belgium since the weekend, The Brussels Times reports. 

The case was confirmed by Brussels Health Minister Alain Maron’s cabinet, which said the patient had returned from a high-risk area, which his Walloon counterpart later said was the north of Italy.

The patient is reportedly quarantined at home and has been given the “adequate material and documentation,” the cabinet said, adding that the patient had “symptoms of the infection but was in an overall good state.”

The global death toll from the coronavirus outbreak exceeded 3,000 on Monday, according to The Guardian.

Covid-19 has now infected more than 88,000 people and spread to more than 60 countries after first emerging in China late last year. Indonesia, which has so far claimed to be virus-free, registered its first two cases on Monday.