(VOVworld) – China’s first patient with the Zika virus was discharged from hospital on Sunday, the National Health and Family Planning Commission reported.

Photo taken on Feb. 10, 2016 shows the People's Hospital of Ganxian County, where China's first Zika patient is being treated, in Ganzhou City, east China's Jiangxi Province. (Photo: Xinhua)

China confirmed its first Zika case on February 9. The patient, a 34-year-old man from Ganxian County in Jiangxi Province, developed a fever, headache and dizziness on January 28 in Venezuela, before returning to his hometown on February 5 via Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

He has been receiving treatment in a hospital in Ganxian since February 6. So far 31 countries have confirmed Zika cases. The Zika virus spreads to people through Aedes mosquito bites. In pregnant women, the virus can lead to severe brain defects in newborns. There is as yet no Zika vaccine.