A 15th case of the coronavirus in the United States was confirmed Thursday, as authorities reported a second death outside of China due to the outbreak.
The U.S. patient was diagnosed in Texas with the illness, recently named COVID-19, marking the first reported case of the virus in that state. The person is among a group of people under a federal quarantine order at the JBSA-Lackland, an Air Force base in Bexar County, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The patient returned to the country on Feb. 7 on a State Department-chartered flight. The individual remains isolated and is receiving medical care at a nearby hospital, the CDC said in a statement.
“There will likely be additional cases in the coming days and weeks, including among other people recently returned from Wuhan,” the CDC’s website says. “While 195 people were discharged from quarantine on Tuesday, more than 600 people who returned on chartered flights from Wuhan remain under federal quarantine and are being closely monitored to contain the spread of the virus.”
Other cases of the coronavirus in the U.S. were reported in Arizona, California, Illinois, Washington state, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, where a UMass Boston was diagnosed with the respiratory infection late last month. The student, a man in his 20s, remains isolated in his off-campus housing and is being monitored by public health nurses, according to officials.
Though the risk of the disease remains low for the general American public, the threat internationally is high, the CDC said.
Nearly 47,000 cases have been confirmed globally, more than 46,000 of which were reported in China. The coronavirus has also killed 1,368 people. As of Thursday, more than 250 new deaths were reported within 24 hours, according to the World Health Organization’s most recent situation report.
Only two patients have died from the infection outside of China, according to WHO. Those deaths were reported in the Philippines and Japan.
The death toll from the coronavirus has well passed the roughly 775 people who died from the SARS epidemic of the early 2000s. A little bit more than 8,000 people contracted the virus at the time.
The outbreak of COVID-19 started in the Chinese city of Wuhan in early December. Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in the city, raised concerns about the viral illness early on, but he was reportedly forced by China’s government to retract his warnings and say he had spread illegal rumors.
Wenliang later died from the coronavirus but became a voice of public criticism of the country’s handling of the outbreak before his death. A resolution was introduced into the U.S. Senate earlier this week to honor the doctor and call for greater transparency from China in its handling of the spread of COVID-19.
China reported Thursday an additional 13,332 clinically confirmed coronavirus cases in the Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, according to WHO. Most of the cases date back days and weeks but were retrospectively reported, the organization said.
“So this increase that you’ve all seen in the last 24 hours is largely down to a change in how cases are being diagnosed and reported,” Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO’s health emergencies program, said Thursday.
No vaccine exists for the coronavirus currently, but public health officials urged the public to take precautionary measures similar to those taken during flu season, including washing one’s hands with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds, covering coughs and sneezes and staying home if one is sick.
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