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Hong Kong reaches 100 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus
Hong Kong has confirmed two more coronavirus cases, making the total number of confirmed cases 100, according to Hong Kong’s Center for Health Protection (CHP) Monday.
One of the new cases is a 63-year-old man with “underlying illness” and is the brother of another previously confirmed case. He is in stable condition and receiving treatment at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, the CHP said.
The man had no travel history during the incubation period and attended his daughter’s wedding on February 22, where his sister, the previously confirmed case, was present.
Iraq Reports Two New Coronavirus Cases
A medic checks the body temperature of a woman arriving to the checkpoint of Arbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on March 2, 2020, as a measure to prevent a novel coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP) (Photo by SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)
Iraq announced on Monday that two more patients have been tested positive for novel coronavirus, Health Ministry said in a statement. This brings the total number of positive coronavirus cases in Iraq to 21.
The two new cases have been registered in Baghdad from two Iraqis who have returned from Iran recently. They are currently quarantined in a special medical facility that belongs to the Health Ministry.
Husband of New York coronavirus patient is also being tested for illness
The 39-year old who tested positive for coronavirus in New York was working in Iran prior to returning home where she remains in isolation with her husband, another healthcare worker, who is also being tested, the New York governor said Monday.
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo said he assumes the husband will test positive as well given the circumstances. He has been following the same protocols, Cuomo said.
While it is not believed she was contagious on the plane, authorities are contacting the people on the flight as well as the driver of the private car service she took from the airport to her residence, Cuomo said. He stressed that she did not take public transportation.
The testing was done at Mount Sinai hospital in New York and the hospital was contacted before arrival.
The woman has manifested respiratory illnesses, but her condition is mild, Cuomo said.
Looking forward, the governor said they are coordinating with private hospital and labs round the state and that the intention is to get the testing capacity “as high as possible.”
“I said to the people around this table that I would like to have a goal of 1,000 tests per day capacity within one week. Because again, the more testing the better. Once you can test and find a person who is positive, then you can isolate that person so they don’t infect additional people.”
Cuomo added: “We have been ahead of this from day one.”
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