TIANJIN, March 20 (Xinhua) -- North China's Tianjin Municipality reported the city's first confirmed imported case of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Friday.

The patient, a 23-year-old woman who had been studying in Britain, took flight LX-451 from London to Zurich on March 16, before taking another flight LX-160 to Tokyo on the same day. She left Tokyo on flight CA-926 the next day and landed in Beijing. She was then transported to a centralized quarantine center in Tianjin for further medical observation early Wednesday, according to Tianjin municipal center for disease control and prevention.

The woman had fever late Wednesday and was sent to the People's Hospital of Tianjin Municipality for treatment. She was tested positive for the coronavirus Thursday and confirmed to have been infected with COVID-19 in the same day before she was sent to Haihe Hospital designated for treatment of the disease, said the local source.

Tianjin has reported a total of 136 indigenously-transmitted COVID-19 cases and three deaths so far.  ■