CORONAVIRUS | Five of the passengers arrive exhibiting possible symptoms, two of them children.
| Another group of nearly 350 Americans airlifted from the epicentre of China's fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak were placed under quarantine at two military bases in California on Wednesday, as the number of confirmed US cases of the disease rose to 12.
The latest evacuees, together with 195 Americans flown out of Wuhan, China, a week ago by the US government, bring to 540 the number people subject so far to the CDC's first public health quarantine in 50 years. Wuhan, in China's Hubei province, is the epicentre of the disease. After refuelling, the second evacuation plane flew on to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, near San Diego, arriving with 167 passengers. Of that group, three adults and a child"were determined to have a fever or a cough that warranted them being transported to a local hospital for further evaluation," the CDC said. The rest were placed under quarantine at two housing sites on base.
"If there were ongoing community spread of this virus we would know it, and that's not happening," Braden said."So right now, in the United States, communities across this country are at very low risk of being exposed to this virus, including in San Diego and including on this base." As with nine other US cases documented to date, that person fell ill after travelling to China and was exposed to known cases there, the state health department said. Just two confirmed US coronavirus cases were transmitted person-to-person within the United States - both between spouses.
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