Officials on Saturday announced California's third known case of a coronavirus patient without any known ties to foreign travel. She is 'a household contact' of another patient.
The two women are among the three California patients so far who did not recently travel outside the U.S. or come in contact with someone who did. That raised concerns that the virus was spreading in communities and prompted health officials to find and quarantine anyone who came in contact with them.
The new patient, who officials said is not ill and is isolated at home, had contact with a Santa Clara County woman with chronic health conditions whose physicians requested coronavirus testing after she was hospitalized for a respiratory illness. The disclosure comes as health officials throughout Northern California are trying to find people who might have come in contact with the three patients.The efforts had already led to the voluntary quarantining of dozens of people, including students at UC Davis and other college campuses, and workers at the two hospitals where the country’s first patient without any known links to foreign travel was treated.
This time gap concerns officials because it could have allowed her to infect others she came in contact with.There are at least 30 coronavirus patients in California, many of them from repatriation flights, with the number changing often.
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