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Quebec health officials have disclosed the province’s first probable case of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Montreal.

The patient, a Montreal-area woman, had just returned from a trip to Iran via Doha, Qatar, Monday when she went to a medical clinic that same evening because of “mild” symptoms, Quebec Health Minister Danielle McCann said. Her condition did not require hospitalization, the minister said — though numerous reports said she underwent tests at Verdun Hospital before being released.

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The patient is now in voluntary isolation at home and is “doing fine,” McCann told reporters Thursday evening at a hastily called news conference in Montreal.

The woman did not go to work after her return from Iran nor did she take public transit, Dr. Yves Jalbert, deputy head of the provincial public health protection agency, told reporters by phone from Quebec City during the same news conference.