On 29 January, the first case in the United Arab Emirates is confirmed that of a Chinese national who came to the country on vacation with their family from Wuhan.[158] The Chinese family of four, mother, father, nine-year-old girl and grandmother, arrived in the Emirates on January 16 and took the grandmother to a doctor with flu-like symptoms on January 23, where it was discovered that the family was infected with the virus.[159] The announcement led to a sell out of face masks across the UAE.[160][161]