Coronavirus fears: man locks wife in bathroom

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Police in Lithuania intervened in a domestic dispute on Wednesday after a man locked his wife in the bathroom over fears that she may be carrying the coronavirus. The woman reportedly told her husband she may have caught the disease new coronavirus when she spoke with a person who had arrived from abroad. "Police officers arrived, there was no violence, no complaint, therefore an ambulance was called," the police spokesman said. Local media reported that the woman tested negative for the presence of the new coronavirus, which has so far infected one person in Lithuania, an EU Baltic state of 2.8 million people. The 39-year-old male victim had recently returned from Verona in an area of northern Italy that has recorded Europe's highest number of deaths from the disease.