REUTERS
A 34-year-old man who recently travelled to South America has become China's first confirmed case of Zika virus infection, reports state media, according to the BBC.
China's National Health and Family Planning Commission said the man was from Ganxian county in the eastern province of Jiangxi, the BBC reported.
The virus is carried by mosquitoes and has been linked to birth defects.
But Chinese authorities have downplayed the risk of it spreading there, because of the winter cold.
The man had travelled through Hong Kong and Shenzhen on his way back from Venezuela, where he originally displayed symptoms, including a fever and dizziness.
He is now being quarantined at a hospital in his hometown and is recovering normally, the report said.