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Coronavirus: Residents With 2.2m Population Told To Work From Home
Residents of a Washington county where 44 people have tested positive for coronavirus and nine people have died are being advised to work from home and schools are shutting down to avoid possible exposure to the killer strain.
Eleven people in the U.S. have died from coronavirus, and 165 people have tested positive nationwide. Washington state has been at the epicenter of the outbreak, with 44 cases and 10 deaths, Daily Mail reports.
In the state, King County has recorded nine deaths, and Snohomish County has recorded one death.
The country’s eleventh dead was recorded in California on Wednesday – the state’s first death. An elderly cruise ship passenger in his 70s died after being held in isolation.
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The widespread outbreak has now left public health officials in King County, which includes Seattle and is home to over 2.2 million people, urging local businesses to allow employees to telecommute for the next three weeks in an effort to curb the COVID-19 outbreak.
They are also recommending that higher-risk groups – including people over the age of 60, pregnant women and people with underlying health conditions or weakened immune systems – stay home and away from large social gatherings.
The latest recommendations announced Wednesday came after an employee at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters was confirmed to have tested positive for coronavirus, potentially exposing some 50,000 others who work at the plant.
Hours later officials confirmed that an employee at Facebook’s Stadium East office in Seattle had also tested positive. The company said the office will be closed until at least March 9.
Northshore School District, which serves 22,000 students across King and Snohomish counties, announced late Wednesday that it was closing all 36 of its schools after a parent or volunteer at Woodmoor Elementary tested ‘presumptive positive’ for coronavirus.
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