Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said in a statement on Twitter that three of those testing positive were close contacts of a known case.Six others had recently traveled from Italy, and two from Iran. One patient had no relevant travel, and authorities were investigating how they had caught the virus.Also Sunday, Qatar's health ministry announced two more cases of coronavirus in the country, according to the ministry's Twitter account.
The two Qatari individuals were evacuated from Iran on Feb. 27 and have been under full quarantine, it said.