Health officials are to contact anyone who was on a recent flight from Italy to Dublin and who may have been exposed to coronavirus.
It's after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Northern Ireland last night, after the patient travelled from Dublin to Belfast.
Passengers who were sitting within two rows of the individual are considered to be most at risk.
It's believed the patient was a woman travelling with a child, it's understood the child has tested negative.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride has announced Northern Ireland's first presumptive positive result for coronavirus #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/NMOOMtpI8l
— Department of Health (@healthdpt) February 27, 2020
More than 80-thousand people in nearly 50 countries have been infected and close to three thousand have died.
Stock markets have fallen, as the impact of the coronavirus outbreak is felt across the world.
The Dow Jones recorded its biggest ever one-day points fall.
The World Health Organisation has said that the outbreak has reached a "decisive point" and has "pandemic potential."
