At least 49 of those cases are people who were evacuated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, and the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
People walk through Manhattan with surgical masks as fears of the coronavirus spreading through the U.S. increase on March 04, 2020.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday confirmed 20 new cases of COVID-19 over 24 hours, bringing the United States total to at least 149.
The CDC said it's tested 1,526 people for the flu-like virus as of Wednesday. That does include testing being done at state and local public health laboratories, which began this week, the agency said.— a man and a woman with no known connection to other people who have the virus." to fight COVID-19 as it continues to spread outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak.
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