The Wuhan coronavirus has killed 41 people and infected nearly 1,300

The virus is thought to have originated at a wet market in the city of Wuhan, and has spread to at least 10 other countries: Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia, Malaysia and the US. Two US cases have been reported so far: A man in his 30s in Washington state and a woman in her 60s in Chicago. Three patients in France, announced on Friday, are the first in Europe.

France has identified three cases of the deadly new coronavirus from China, the first cases in Europe.

Two of the cases were announced by the health minister, Agnès Buzyn, on Friday evening. She said that both of those affected had travelled to China.