Just a day after discharging its first patient infected with the Zika virus, China reported its second imported Zika case, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) announced on Monday.

Last Friday, a passenger with fever was found by the AQSIQ's Guangdong provincial branch. The Zika virus case was only confirmed on Monday by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, when blood and urine samples returned positive for the infection.

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Days before the making the return trip to Guangzhou via the Netherlands and Russia on Feb. 9, the patient was allegedly exposed to a friend, who purportedly had a "mosquito-borne disease in January,"  in Venezuela. That was 12 days before the patient developed fever.  No other specific details were given. But it is clear that the 28-year-old patient has been already quarantined and is showing signs of progress, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

Meanwhile, China has already discharged its first Zika virus patient, a 34-year old Chinese man who also returned from Venezuela recently. The man was discharged on Sunday after showing negative results in his nucleic acid tests. 

Because of apt quarantine, experts claim that the risk of the virus spreading is relatively low. Furthermore, China's current temperature is unsuitable for the survival of mosquitoes.

While there has only been a handful of cases of the Zika virus in Asian countries, the World Health Organization has declared  an international health emergency to contain the spread of the virus in other regions. So far, the virus has spread to more than 20 countries and territories in Latin America, according to Reuters citing the Pan American Health Organization.

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