8th Coronavirus Case Confirmed In US As Apple Shutters Stores Across China
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Sat, 02/01/2020
Update (1255ET): According to officials with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the first case of novel coronavirus has been confirmed in the state on Saturday afternoon.
#BREAKING: Health officials announce the first case of the #coronavirus in Massachusetts. They say a #Boston man in his 20s tested positive. He recently traveled to Wuhan, China. He sought medical care soon after his return to MA & has been isolated since that time. #WBZ
— Anna Meiler (@AnnaMeiler) February 1, 2020
Boston health officials said the man is in his 20s, contracted the deadly virus after he returned from a trip in Wuhan, China.
The Boston Public Health Commission said the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control Prevention was notified about the lab results on Friday evening.
“He has been isolated since that time and will continue to remain isolated until cleared by public health officials,” the department said, adding that his few close contacts have been identified and are being monitored for any signs of symptoms.
“We are grateful that this young man is recovering and sought medical attention immediately,” said the state’s public health commissioner, Monica Bharel. “Again, the risk to the public from the 2019 novel coronavirus remains low in Massachusetts.”
Fortunately he is ‘recovering’.
BREAKING: 1st case of coronavirus in Massachusetts has been confirmed in a man returning from Wuhan, China who is in his 20s and lives in Boston, according to @MassDPH pic.twitter.com/BxXlrhPvN6
— Mike Saccone (@mikesacconetv) February 1, 2020
This is the eighth case of confirmed coronavirus in the US after the 7th was confirmed in the Bay Area on Friday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Australia’s flag carrier Qantas is the latest airline to cancel flights between China after that country cracked down on foreigners who have been to Hubei traveling in the country.
Though US has taken steps to stop foreigners who might be an infection risk from entering the country, airline employees are pushing for all American carriers to temporarily suspend all flights to and from China. The Association of Flight Attendants, representing 50,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines has called for “clear direction from our government to U.S. airlines to pull down all travel to China until the spread of coronavirus is contained,” in a statement shared by ABC News.
“It is critical that any crew potentially infected through travel to and from China not be assigned to any additional flights until safely through the fourteen-day incubation period,” the statement added.
Back in Wuhan, the government is dialing up the propaganda as public anger (which has been manipulated to focus on local officials who have been scapegoated by Beijing) crests.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1223674337795940356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1223674337795940356&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fgeopolitical%2Fsecond-chinese-city-bars-residents-leaving-their-homes-hong-kong-workers-demand-city
There’s more where that came from.
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I have not seen the case reported in Mt Pleasant, Utah
Student in private school who just returned from China.