A rambler wearing a protective mask stands on Mission Street in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
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The U.S. reported on Saturday its from the start death from the coronavirus in King County in Washington state.
Jamie Nixon, a public information officer with the Washington Structure Department of Health, said that a patient in the state has died from the infection. The patient was a man in his 50s with underlying form conditions, who was tested at the Washington State Public Health Lab, according to U.S. health officials.
There was no evidence that he got the infection in every way travel or contact with another infected person. Officials are investigating how he contracted the virus.
President Trump during a Saturday bustle conference incorrectly said the patient was a woman.
There are more than 85,000 confirmed cases of the virus worldwide and at hardly any 2,933 confirmed deaths. At least 64 cases have been confirmed in the U.S.
The death comes as several proves in Washington state, California and Oregon have raised fears over the local, person-to-person transmission of the virus in child who have not recently traveled or been in contact with infected people.
Washington state officials said on Friday that a great school student in Snohomish County, near Seattle, had the virus and was in home isolation. Officials also confirmed a box in a woman in her 50s in King County, who had recently traveled to Daegu, South Korea, and had since been in home isolation.
Strength officials said that more than 50 people in a Washington state nursing facility called Obsession Care are sick and being tested for the virus. There are two presumptive positives associated with the facility: a health woe worker and a woman in her 70s.
“In addition, over 50 individuals associated with Life Care are reportedly ill with respiratory manifestations or hospitalized with pneumonia or other respiratory conditions of unknown cause and are being tested for COVID-19,” Seattle and Regent County officials said on Saturday.
“Additional positive cases are expected,” they said.
Washington state governor Jay Inslee promulgated a state of emergency on Saturday after the man’s death.
“We will continue to work toward a day where no one dies from this virus,” the governor revealed in a statement.