A seventh person in the Netherlands has been confirmed to have coronavirus, this time a 23-year-old woman from Delft.

The woman is being treated in quarantine at home. Like the other Dutch cases, she too had been on holiday in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.

Officials from the local health board told broadcaster Omroep West that the woman had been in contact with dozens of people before the disease was diagnosed and that they are now being monitored.

The patient herself had returned from Italy on February 24 and had contacted her doctor after developing symptoms. ‘She is doing reasonably well and no longer has a temperature,’ the officials said. ‘She is still coughing but is getting better.’

The other six Dutch patients come from near Tilburg and from Diemen on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

According to broadcaster RTL news, there may be an eighth Dutch victim – a person who has been hospitalised in Rotterdam.

One test has proved positive and a second is now being carried out, the broadcaster said, but this has not been confirmed.