Mayor of Washington D.C., Muriel Bowser has confirmed a new CoronaVirus in the state , in the person of a Nigerian man in Maryland who tested positive to the virus after passing through Washington D.C where the disease has been recorded the highest in the United States.
The Mayor added that all his contacts are being traced in the city.
Bowser announced that a man in his 50s exhibited symptoms of COVID-19 has tested positive for coronavirus and was hospitalized on Thursday making him the first presumptively confirmed case in the capital.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump says he isn’t concerned “at all” about the coronavirus getting closer to the White House after the first Washington case and an attendee of a recent political conference where Trump himself had spoken also tested positive for the virus.
The number of infections in the U.S. is now above 400, with 19 cases confirmed dead.