CDC Confirms 13th Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus
Key Points(3)
- The patient who was under a federal quarantine order recently returned from Wuhan, China, where an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by this novel coronavirus has been ongoing since December 2019.
- This brings the total number of 2019-nCoV cases in the United States to 13.
- <p style="font-weight: 400;">CDC is conducting a thorough contact investigation of the person who has tested positive to determine contacts and to assess if those contacts had high-risk exposures.</p>
LOS ANGELES, California - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on February 10, confirmed another infection with 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the United States that was detected in California.
The patient who was under a federal quarantine order recently returned from Wuhan, China, where an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by this novel coronavirus has been ongoing since December 2019.
This brings the total number of 2019-nCoV cases in the United States to 13.
CDC is conducting a thorough contact investigation of the person who has tested positive to determine contacts and to assess if those contacts had high-risk exposures.
