The federal disease control agency said it was evaluating 110 people for the new coronavirus in the U.S.
to determine how best to stop its spread while researchers worked to identify how best to treat it.
Cases of the virus have continued to spread around the globe. Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Macau, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, France, Canada, Vietnam, Nepal, Cambodia, Germany and the United States have all seen infected patients.for evidence of the coronavirus.at this time but stressed that the agency was preparing for any domestic outbreaks.
“Person-to-person spread in the United States has not yet been detected, but it’s likely to occur to some extent,” the CDC said. “It’s important to note that person-to-person spread can happen on a continuum. Some viruses are highly contagious , while other viruses are less so.” Within China, more than 50 million people in 17 cities are currently under extreme containment measures, prompting
. The effort came during the Lunar New Year holiday, which traditionally sees hundreds of millions of people travel both domestically and abroad.
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