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There are 437 cases of coronavirus in the United States, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as state and local governments.
There are 49 cases from repatriated citizens from Wuhan (3) and the Diamond Princess (46), according to the CDC. Twenty-one, meanwhile, are from the Grand Princess cruise ship being held off California.
According to CNN Health’s tally of US cases that are detected and tested in the United States through US public health systems, 367 cases are in 30 states, bringing the total of coronavirus cases to 437.
This includes presumptive positive cases that tested positive in a public health lab and are pending confirmation from the CDC, and confirmed cases have received positive results from the CDC.
The Italian Cabinet is discussing a draft proposal that could put people in the region of Lombardy and 11 other provinces in northern Italy under complete lockdown due to coronavirus, according to a close adviser to one of the ministers attending a Cabinet meeting.
The text of the draft proposal – also sent to CNN by the press office of the Lombardy regional authority – says that people in Lombardy and the other 11 provinces should “absolutely avoid any movement into and out … as well as within the same territories … except for travel motivated by unavoidable working needs or situations of emergency.”
The draft says the police, the fire brigade and armed forces could be used to enforce these measures.
The measures also could include:
It’s unclear when or if these measure would actually be implemented, because the proposal is still being discussed and the terms could change. It could impact more than 10 million people in Italy.
The first presumptive positive case of coronavirus was identified in Kansas on Saturday, according to a press release from Gov. Laura Kelly’s office.
The patient is a woman under the age of 50 from Johnson County, the release said.
She is home on self-isolation. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health department are trying to identify and reach people who may have had contact with the woman while she was infectious, according to the release.
“Kansas has been prepared for positive cases of novel coronavirus and will continue to work alongside local and federal public health partners in addressing the potential spread of the virus,” Kelly said.
“It is our main priority to keep Kansans healthy and safe. We want Kansans educated on all aspects related to COVID-19,” Kelly said.
For a state-by-state breakdown of coronavirus cases, click here.
Thirteen new cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in New York, according to a statement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office.
The statewide total is now 89.
Check out CNN’s state-by-state breakdown of coronavirus cases here.
There’s no indication that President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence “met with or were in close proximity to the attendee” who tested positive for coronavirus after attending the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement on Saturday.
Trump spoke at the event on February 29.
Pennsylvania announced two new presumptive positive cases of coronavirus Saturday, according to a press release from Gov. Tom Wolf.
“Both individuals are from Montgomery County, have mild symptoms, are in isolation at home and were exposed to an area of the United States where COVID-19 is present,” Wolf said in the release.
There are now four presumptive positive cases in Pennsylvania.
The other two cases are individuals from Delaware County and Wayne County, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Both of those earlier cases are individuals with mild symptoms and are in isolation at home, Wolf said.
Vice President Mike Pence announced a new plan to combat coronavirus on cruises.
There will be enhanced entry and exit screening for cruise passengers, as well as on-board testing for coronavirus, Pence said. There will also be new quarantine standards for those who took a cruise and need to be quarantined, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will coordinate.
The cruise line industry is working with the CDC, Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard over the next 72 hours to implement the plans.
When asked about reports that he may have come into contact with an infected individual at a conference in Washington earlier this month, Pence said he has “not been tested for the coronavirus.”
“We were able to confirm that I did not come in contact with that young person and we wish them and their family a swift recovery,” Pence said.
Canadian officials confirmed an additional two cases of coronavirus in British Columbia on Saturday, bringing the country wide total to 59.
One of the new cases is a man in his 20s who returned from Italy on March 3 and presented himself to a Toronto hospital’s emergency department, according to a provincial government press release.
The other case is of a woman in her 60s who returned from Iran on March 2 and presented herself to a Richmond Hill emergency department.
In both cases, the “hospital took all necessary precautions and followed standard operating procedures, including testing and assessment,” according to the Ontario government.
Both patients were discharged the same day and remain in self-isolation, officials said.
The first presumptive positive coronavirus case has appeared in Washington, according to a news release from the office of Mayor Muriel Bowser.
The release says the test came back positive on Saturday afternoon.
One of the attendees at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, tested positive for coronavirus, the American Conservative Union said in a press release Saturday.
President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials attended the conference, though the ACU says the attendee did not come into contact with Trump or Pence. The attendee also did not attend events in the main hall, the release said.
The ACU said the Trump Administration “is aware of the situation.”
The exposure occurred prior to the conference, the ACU added.
“A New Jersey hospital tested the person, and CDC confirmed the positive result. The individual is under the care of medical professionals in the state of New Jersey, and has been quarantined.”
A new case of coronavirus has been identified in Los Angeles County, according to a press release from the county’s Department of Public Health.
The person who tested positive recently attended the AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington D.C., where they may have been exposed.
Earlier this week, AIPAC organizers said two conference attendees from New York tested positive for coronavirus.
There are now 14 coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County, the release said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided “extra nurses, practitioners and doctors” to the Life Care Center, according to Tim Killian, the center’s spokesperson in Kirkland, Washington.
“The amount of work and stress that these staff and employees and caregivers here are under is tremendous,” Killian said. “They truly are heroes.”
A quarantined cruise ship in Egypt carrying 171 people now has 45 confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to state-run Al-Ahram news agency.
The Luxor Nile traveled from Aswan to Luxor, where it is now docked.
Of the 45 people infected, 19 were from other countries besides Egypt, said Egypt’s health minister Hala Zayed.
“They [all the recently-announced cases] are now on their way to be isolated in a hospital in Marsa Matrouh,” Zayed said.
The new cases aboard the cruise bring the total number of cases in Egypt to 48, according to Al Ahram.
Brazil, Chile and Paraguay all announced new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday.
Paraguay
Paraguay’s health ministry announced the country’s first case of the novel coronavirus. The health ministry wrote on its official Twitter account that the case is a young Paraguayan national who came from Ecuador and who is now in good health and in home quarantine.
Brazil
Four more cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Brazil, according to the country’s health ministry, bringing the national total to 17.
The new cases include three people in Sao Paulo and one in Rio de Janeiro. The health ministry said all of the new cases were imported.
Chile
A 20-year-old who recently traveled in Europe, including in Spain, tested positive for coronavirus in Chile, according to the country’s health ministry.
The case is the seventh in Chile, the ministry said.
Seventy employees at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington, are showing symptoms of novel coronavirus, according to Tim Killian, spokesperson for the facility.
There were 180 staff members employed at Life Care Center as of February 19.
Employees showing symptoms have been asked not to return to work, Killian said at a briefing on Saturday.
There were 120 residents at the facility on February 19, 54 residents have since been transferred to various hospitals, Killian said.
All current residents are confined to their rooms, Killian added.
On Thursday, the facility received 45 coronavirus tests, the results of which are still pending, according to Killian.
A critically ill passenger and her husband were “medically disembarked” from the Grand Princess cruise ship by the US Coast Guard Saturday morning, according to a press release from Princess Cruises.
The passenger, a woman in her 70s, was taken to a shoreside hospital for treatment unrelated to coronavirus, according to a US Coast Guard press release. The woman and her husband were taken by helicopter.
Personal protective gear – including gloves and face masks – was delivered to the ship by the US Coast Guard on Friday night to supplement the current supply, the release said.
The ship remains 50 miles off the coast of San Francisco as cruise operators await the guidance of health officials, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and California Department of Public Health.
Portugal’s national health directorate is reporting 21 total confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country.
Four patients came from Italy, one from Spain and the others were local transmissions.
Greece’s health ministry announced 21 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, bringing the total to 66.
Forty-seven of the 66 cases were all part of a tour group to Israel and Egypt. One patient is in serious condition and all the rest are in stable condition.
Vice President Mike Pence spoke of the cruise ship off the coast of San Francisco in a meeting with members of the cruise line industry in Florida today amidst the coronavirus outbreak.
Pence also said “while the risk to the average American of contracting the coronavirus remains low, it is essential that we find ways to mitigate that risk to prevent the spread of coronavirus and I’m here today on behalf of President Trump to learn ways that this industry, the cruise line industry, can work with our health officials at the federal level, here at the state level with port authorities to give the passengers, communities and the country safe and healthy.”
Adam Goldstein, global chairman of the Cruise Lines International Association, told Pence it was the “commitment” of the cruise line industry to “work closely with government and to go above and beyond anything we are currently doing to screen even more stringently to prevent those who should not be allowed to board, to monitor and test and care for those who are on board and to transition and help pay for any sick guests or crew to move to locations staffed and equipped COVID-19 cases.”
“We will work aggressively with government to further develop and strengthen all necessary protocols for prevention, for detection and for care,” Goldstein said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, as well as officials from Carnival Cruise, MSC and Royal Caribbean were also part of the meeting with Pence.
