despread risk for Europe.

Starting December 2019, cases of pneumonia of unknown aetiology were reported in the city of Wuhan, in the province of Hubei in China [1]. The infective pathogen was later identified as a novel coronavirus, called 2019-nCoV [2]. As at 26 January 2020, a total of 1,988 confirmed cases have been reported from China [3]. The main affected area is i