Iran Press/Asia: The two infected people are employees at a tourist resort and are believed to have caught the disease from an Italian tourist who has returned to Italy and tested positive there.
Both are showing symptoms but are in stable condition in a quarantine facility just outside Malé, the island capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago, a health ministry official told Reuters.
COVID-19 was first detected in China's Wuhan in late December and has since spread across the world. In late January, the World Health Organisation declared a global health emergency in light of the epidemic.
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