Japan confirmed a fourth case of the Wuhan coronavirus on Sunday, the country’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said in a statement.
The latest case is a man in his 40s who traveled from Wuhan and arrived in Japan on January 22.
He showed no symptoms at the time of his arrival but started suffering from a fever and joint pain on the 23rd. He went to a hospital in Aichi prefecture in central Japan on the January 24 and was hospitalized after symptoms of pneumonia were found.
The man still has fever, but his condition is stable. He told authorities he hasn’t visited the seafood market in Wuhan -- the epicenter of the outbreak.
It is unclear whether he had contact with any pneumonia patients.