The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 84 (4 more than yesterday) countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan).
As of March 05, 2020 at 02:29 GMT, there have been 159 (up 41 cases/34% from yesterday) confirmed cases and 11 deaths due to coronavirus COVID-19 in the United States.
California declares emergency after 1st coronavirus death
The measure made California the third U.S. state to declare a state of emergency. Washington and Florida are the other two.
1,000 New Yorkers are being asked to self-quarantine after officials report a new cluster of coronavirus
"A total of six people across metro New York are infected with coronavirus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.
They include the city's first case of community spread -- meaning the source of infection is unknown."
California: Contra Costa County treating first case of coronavirus
"A resident in Contra Costa County has become the first to contract a case of novel coronavirus...the person who tested positive Tuesday had no known travel history and no known contact with a confirmed case of coronavirus."
New York: Second Case of Coronavirus in N.Y. Sets Off Search for Others Exposed
"The authorities have little inkling of how the man, a lawyer who lives in New Rochelle but works in Manhattan, had been infected. He had traveled to Miami in February and regularly visited Israel, but had not been to any areas with widespread transmission."
N.Y. Patient’s Family, Driver Infected
"Three family members of a Westchester County attorney who tested positive for the coronavirus have all become infected, along with a neighbor who drove the man to the hospital..."
New Hampshire: Coronavirus patient ignored self-isolation order to go to business event
"Having defied the first directive, ...after officially testing positive on Monday...
A close colleague of his ... became the State’s second confirmed case on Tuesday...
It left health workers scrambling to contact attendees at the event in neighboring Vermont to tell them to “follow the recommended 14-day self-isolation,” the service said."
California: Los Angeles-area officials declare emergency after confirming six new coronavirus cases over 48 hours
"Los Angeles-area officials have discovered six new COVID-19 cases in the county over the last 48 hours, prompting them to declare a local emergency to help free up federal and state funding...all six new cases are linked to “an assumed known exposure"
WHO estimates global mortality rate for coronavirus is 3.4%
"...the figure was a bit of a surprise, since a study from the Chinese Center for Disease Control looking at 44,000 patients who tested positive estimated the death rate was 2.3%."
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