Faced with a second coronavirus case of unknown origin, California will now have 8 public health labs capable of coronavirus, officials announced Friday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised communities to take precautions in the event that the coronavirus spreads.Investigators are now working to identify and locate anyone who may have come in contact with the woman. The CDC has sent 10 staffers to help trace her contacts, officials said.
Sacramento County health officials said that dozens of people might be quarantined at home based on having contact with the woman. UC Davis spokesman Steve Telliano disputed that the number could be higher than 70 but refused to say if more or fewer people were quarantined. Huddleston said that the quarantine affected dozens connected to the hospital.Huddleston said that the hospital staff is comprised of about a couple hundred.
Employees said customers have been buying them by the case and they fly off the shelves as soon as new supplies arrive. The employees did not have authority to speak on behalf of the store and asked to remain unnamed. According to the Washington Post, a whistleblower reported that the Department of Health and Human Services sent a crew of workers to the base without the adequate protective gear or proper training on viral outbreaks.
On Thursday night, the CDC revised its testing guidelines to allow for more people to be tested for the coronavirus. Previously, only people with flu-like symptoms and a travel history to China or close contact with someone who traveled to China. are under 14-day isolation as one awaits test results after showing mild coronavirus symptoms, officials said.One student has been off campus since Tuesday and has been tested for COVID-19. The student is in isolation at their home, UC Davis spokeswoman Melissa Lutz Blouin said Friday.
UC Davis is following the direction of the Yolo County Public Health Department in its response to the incident.
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