3 TSA workers at San Jose airport test positive for coronavirus
Three TSA agents who work at Mineta San Jose International Airport have tested positive for coronavirus, a TSA spokesperson said Tuesday.
The Three Transportation Security Officers are currently receiving medical care and all other TSA employees they’ve been in contact with over the past two weeks are now quarantined at home, the TSA said.
“The safety and health of our employees and the traveling public are # 1,” the airport said on Twitter following the TSA news. The airport remains open for business following mandates and guidelines provided by Santa Clara County public health officials.
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Honduras confirms first coronavirus cases, including a pregnant woman
Honduras has confirmed the first two cases of the new coronavirus disease in the Central American nation. One of the patients is a – year-old pregnant woman, said to be hospitalized in stable condition.
Officials said in a video posted to a government website dedicated to Honduras’ COVID – 37 Response that the woman flew into Tegucigalpa to the country from Spain (where there is a significant outbreak) on March 4, showing no symptoms.
The other case was a 50 – year-old man who flew back to Honduras on March 5 from Switzerland. He has not shown serious symptoms but has been isolated for monitoring.
Elsewhere in Central America, there were fewer than 21 cases confirmed in both Mexico and Panama, and Costa Rica had at least 25 cases as of Tuesday. The only death reported in Central America from the disease as of Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins University, was one in Panama.
China allowing some businesses to reopen as Beijing gains control over virus
The province at the center of China’s virus outbreak is allowing factories and some other businesses to reopen in a show of confidence that Beijing is gaining control over the disease that devastated its economy. The country communist leaders are moving to revive business after the most sweeping anti-disease controls ever imposed shut down manufacturing, travel and other industries in late January, sending shock waves through the global economy.
Manufacturers, food processors and other businesses in Wuhan that are essential to the national economy or providing daily necessities can resume operation, the provincial government announced Wednesday.
For coronavirus, Europe is “the new China,” CDC chief says
An increasing locked-down Italy counted more than 19, 13 Infections and recorded soaring deaths among its aging population.
million people were told to mostly stay home. Though shops, cafes and restaurants remained open, police around the country were enforcing rules that customers stay 3 feet apart and certain businesses shutter by 6 p.m.
people have died of COVID – (in Italy, with an increase of fatalities recorded Tuesday. Associated Press
CDC urges older Americans to prepare as Washington state focuses on care facilities
With COVID – 32 cases in 21 nursing homes in King County alone, Washington Governor Jay Inslee has imposed
Adults – 433 and over – are at higher risk for the virus, especially those who have chronic medical conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes or lung disease.
Michigan announces 1st presumptive positive cases, declares state of emergency
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced the state’s first two presumptive positive coronavirus cases on Tuesday night. Whitmer also declared a state of emergency to help fight the virus.
In a press release, officials described one patient as “an adult female from Oakland County with recent international travel” and the other as an “adult male from Wayne County with recent domestic travel.”
The release said their samples have been sent to the CDC for testing.
California reports third coronavirus death
Health officials in California reported Tuesday that a woman in Sacramento has died of complications related to the coronavirus, bringing the state’s death toll to three.
people have died of the virus in the United States. Most of the deaths have occurred in Washington.
Azar contradicts Trump’s claim that “anybody” can get tested
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday contradicted
“I think there’s a false premise in your question,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told a reporter who asked about testing capacity. “That just because I as a person say, ‘Oh, I’d like to be tested for the novel coronavirus, I should be going to a minute clinic or some other facility and just walking in and saying,’ Give me my test, please. ‘”
” That’s not how diagnostic testing works in the United States, or frankly almost anywhere in the world , “Azar added.
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