A state laboratory in Arizona is now using in-house testing for the novel coronavirus in a bid to speed potential diagnoses in the state and avoid relying on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to process patient samples.
More than two dozen firefighters in Washington State have been quarantined after they were possibly exposed to the novel coronavirus, which has killed at least six people in the state to date.
Iran on Tuesday announced new measures to slow the spread of the new coronavirus and reported that the country has seen 2,336 cases and 77 deaths since the outbreak.
The Trump administration has reportedly ordered an investigation into a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lab in Atlanta that was in charge of assembling coronavirus test kits after a scientist with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) raised concerns that the lab itself may be “contaminated,” possibly leading to faulty test kits, according to reports.
A person in San Antonio, Texas who was released from quarantine by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) later tested positive for the novel virus and is now back in quarantine, according to the city’s mayor.
Amid rising global cases of the novel coronavirus and at least two deaths in the U.S., officials with the Kearsarge Regional School District in New London, New Hampshire are asking students and staff who recently returned from a school trip to Europe to stay home.
An advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died from the coronavirus, which comes as other top officials in the country are reported to also be infected, according to multiple reports on Monday.
Governor Ron Desantis issued an order directing a public health emergency in Florida on Sunday after the state recorded its first positive case of the new coronavirus (COVID-19).
The first case of coronavirus in New York has been confirmed and the patient, a female health care worker in her late 30s, is isolated in her Manhattan home, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.
