CALIFORNIA health officials said on Sunday that they had confirmed a ninth case of the fast-spreading novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the United States in Santa Clara, located in the San Francisco Bay area.
The woman is being quarantined and the family she was staying with is now in isolation at their home. The woman was never sick enough to require hospitalisation, Santa Clara County health officials told a news conference.
The woman, who recently travelled to the epicentre of the outbreak in Wuhan, China, is the second case in Santa Clara reported, health officials said. They said the case is not related to the first case in Santa Clara.
Santa Clara is located about 40 miles southeast of San Francisco.
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) informed county health officials of the case on Sunday morning, said Sara Cody, health officer of the Public Health Department of the County of Santa Clara.
The flu-like coronavirus, which is believed to have originated in a market that traded illegally in wildlife in Hubei’s provincial capital, Wuhan, has so far resulted in 361 deaths in China. Confirmed cases of the virus have been reported in 23 other nations, according to the CDC.
US health officials have said risks to the United States remain low. - Reuters