NSTworld: US health officials reported a 15th confirmed case of Covid19 coronavirus in the UnitedStates on Thursday as the White House criticised China’s response to the outbreak.
A patient who was among the Americans evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan - the epicentre of the outbreak - and placed under quarantine at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, became the latest US case, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.The US government has flown about 800 people from Hubei province, placing them under 14-day quarantine at US military bases.
The fast-spreading virus has killed 1,438 people and infected about 60,000, nearly all in China, constraining the world’s second-largest economy and testing the ruling Communist Party. The sudden increase appeared to be largely due to a change in how Chinese officials were confirming cases. Hubei previously allowed infections to be confirmed only by a specific test that was in short supply. It has now begun identifying cases using more common lung scans.
The Trump administration was also very disappointed that Beijing had not accepted a US invitation to send a team of CDC experts to China to help, Kudlow said.
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