The patient, a woman in her 30s who traveled to Iran, reportedly lives in Manhattan
A health worker demonstrates how to don protective gear. Photo: Boston Globe/Boston Globe via Getty Images On Sunday, Governor Andrew Cuomo released a statement confirming the first case of Covid-19 novel coronavirus in New York. The patient is a woman in her late 30s who contracted the virus on a trip to Iran. According to the statement, she is “currently isolated in her home” and has “respiratory symptoms, but is not in serious condition.
“There is no cause for surprise — this was expected,” the statement reads. “As I said from the beginning, it was a matter of when, not if there would be a positive case of novel coronavirus in New York.” Governor Cuomo also hailed the lab in Albany where the test was conducted; at the moment, only around a dozen state and local labs can conduct the test, in part because kits distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Protection in February had a faulty component.
Also on Sunday, Rhode Island and Illinois confirmed their first cases of coronavirus; on Friday, Oregon state health officials announced the first “presumptive” case in the state. On Saturday, Washington Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency to handle the public health crisis: Already, one resident of the Seattle area has died after becoming infected with the coronavirus, which is the first reported death in the United States.
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