Indonesians arriving from Wuhan, China, are sprayed with antiseptic at Hang Nadim Airport in Batam, Indonesia, on Sunday, February 2, 2020. Indonesians evacuated from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of a deadly virus outbreak, were transported to a quarantine zone on a remote island at the edge of the South China Sea, shortly after landing on Batam, an island near Singapore on Sunday morning.
(Indonesian Foreign Ministry via AP)- A woman in the San Francisco Bay-area became ill after a trip to China.
- At least 305 people have died from the virus and as Infections have topped 14,550.
- The first coronavirus death outside China has been confirmed.
- The U.S. State Department has issued a red "do not travel" alert for Americans thinking of traveling to China.
- All flights to the U.S. from China will be funneled through seven major airports.
A woman in the San Francisco Bay Area who became ill after returning from China is the ninth person in the U.S. to test positive for the new coronavirus, The Associated Press reported Sunday.
It's the second case of the virus confirmed in Santa Clara County in the past three days. Local health officials said the two cases are not related, according to AP.
The woman had recently traveled to Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the virus. She arrived in the U.S. on Jan. 23 to visit family, officials said in a news release. The patient has stayed at home since she arrived, except for two trips to seek outpatient medical care. She's not been sick enough to be hospitalized, the release said. The woman's relatives have also been isolated at the home.
The other confirmed U.S. cases are in Boston, Los Angeles County and Orange County in California; Maricopa County, Arizona; Snohomish County, Washington; and a husband and wife in Chicago.
Meanwhile, a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan who died in the Philippines is the first death from an outbreak of a new coronavirus that has been reported outside of China. The man's 38-year-old female companion, also from Wuhan, also tested positive for the virus and remains in hospital isolation in Manila, AP reported.
The viral outbreak, which began in Wuhan, a city in central China's Hubei province, has infected more than 14,550 people globally. The virus, which causes pneumonia and other respiratory problems, has killed at least 305 people.
In addition to mainland China, cases have been confirmed in Hong Kong and Macao and in two dozen other countries.
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The U.S. has declared a public health emergency because of the outbreak. The State Department has warned Americans to not travel to China and to consider leaving if they were already there.
U.S. officials have announced that travelers coming from the outbreak region will be quarantined for 14 days under a federal order issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.
On Saturday, Defense Secretary Mark Esper approved the Health Department's request to use military facilities to accommodate 1,000 people who may have to be quarantined.
Nearly 200 Americans who left Wuhan last week on a flight chartered by the U.S. State Department, are being quarantined at March Air Reserve Base in California.
AP reported that another planeload of passengers from China is expected to arrive Monday at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar near San Diego, according to Rep. Scott Peters. These passengers also will be quarantined for 14 days, Peters said in a statement Sunday.
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an order that temporarily bars entry to foreign nationals who have traveled to China within the last 14 days, with the exception of immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Americans returning from China will be allowed into the country, but will face screening at select ports of entry and be required to undertake 14 days of self-screening to ensure they don't pose a health risk.
Those returning from Hubei province will be subject to up to 14 days of mandatory quarantine. It's the first time the U.S. has made such a move in more than 50 years.
Officials continue to assure the American public there is no need for alarm, and at the same time say they are working aggressively to prevent further spread of the disease.
"While we recognize this is an unprecedented action, we are facing an unprecedented public health threat," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said of the quarantine order.
"While we understand this action may seem drastic, our goal today, tomorrow, and always continues to be the safety of the American public," she said. "We would rather be remembered for overreacting than underreacting."
Travelers arriving from China on commercial flights will now be funneled through seven major airports where they will be screened for the virus.
“The risk of infection for Americans remains low and with these and our previous actions we are working to keep the risk low,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said.
"It is likely that we will continue to see more cases in the United States in the coming days and weeks, including some limited person-to-person transmissions."
Major airlines, meanwhile, continued to cut back on or eliminate flights to and from China altogether. Delta and American became the first U.S. airlines to announce they are suspending all fights between the U.S. and China. United Airlines is suspending flights to Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu but will continue service to Hong Kong.
The American Airlines changes went into effect Friday and are scheduled to run through March 27, the AP reported. Delta will suspend flights starting Feb. 6 and continue through April 30.
Several international airlines have made similar moves.
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On Thursday, the World Health Organization declared a global emergency over the virus.
A WHO official said the few cases of human-to-human spread of the virus outside China — in Japan, Germany, Vietnam and the U.S. — were of “great concern” and were part of the reason the U.N. health agency’s director-general reconvened the committee of experts, according to AP.
The WHO declaration is officially called a "public health emergency of international concern." Criteria for the designation includes international spread of disease and the need for a coordinated international response, according to the WHO website.
WHO is recommending the illness be called 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease.
Tens of millions of people remain on lockdown and travel is prohibited in much of central China around Wuhan, where the outbreak is thought to have begun.
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Students line up to sanitize their hands to avoid the contact of coronavirus before their morning class at a hight school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, as the U.S. government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the center of the outbreak. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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