NEW: 21 people aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship off the coast of California have tested positive for coronavirus, Vice President Pence says.
A group of medical personnel with the CDC and the California National Guard 129th Rescue Wing don protective equipment after delivering virus testing kits to the Grand Princess cruise ship off the coast of California.Chief Master Sgt. Seth Zweben/California National Guard via AP
Pence said of 46 tests conducted so far on the ship, 19 crew members and 2 passengers tested positive, while 24 people were negative and one was inconclusive. The vice president said it's likely that the 1,100 crew on the Grand Princess were exposed to coronavirus on"two different outings" and said that they will remain in quarantine aboard the ship.
Officials are also working to track down thousands of people who were on an earlier Grand Princess cruise from San Francisco to Mexico and might have been exposed to the coronavirus.The U.S. death toll rose to 15, after a Seattle-area hospital confirmed an additional coronavirus death Friday. Fourteen people have now died in Washington state, and one person has died in California.
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