@Longtimer Not the first case. The one reported German case is a guy who has not been to China, but contracted the virus from a Chinese woman from Shanghai during a company education/training in Germany.
She had previously met with people from the most afflicted areas. So, we already have evidence of a multiple-step transmission chain. In a single case - and how many other cases did they not catch at this point in time?
I presume there are already 100eds, if not 1000ands of people infected in Germany alone.
G.