JUST IN: Gov. Brian Kemp and officials with the Georgia Department of Public Health announced Monday night that two Fulton County residents are Georgia's first COVID-19 cases.
The S&P 500 index rose 135 points, or 4.6%, to 3,089 on Monday and the Nasdaq added 384 points, or 4.5%, to 8,952.The U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services said none of its staffers who were involved with bringing back ex-pats from China were exposed to the virus, but that it is investigatingthat alleged they weren’t properly trained and didn’t wear any protection.
Dr. Jeff Duchin, the health officer for the state's Department of Public Health, said among the newly reported deaths are a man and woman in their 70s who had underlying conditions. They were residents of LifeCare, a nursing facility that had several confirmed cases and one previous death, according to Duchin.A woman in her 80s who was hospitalized Sunday night also succumbed to the virus, according to Duchin.
The second patient is a woman in her 20s from Hillsborough County who recently returned from a trip to Italy, the state surgeon general said. She is currently isolated in her home. In the meantime, the Pentagon will work with military families to ensure they stay safe at bases locally and abroad, the defense secretary said.
"But we need to see this in perspective," he added, noting that a vast majority of countries with cases have not demonstrated community-level transmission and about 90% of all confirmed cases were reported in China, mostly in a single province.There also isn't a"one-size fits all approach" to fighting the outbreak, Tedros said, because"different countries are in different scenarios.
The employee, who works in the WHO Country Office in Iran, has"mild disease," Tedros told reporters at Monday's daily briefing in Geneva. Health officials don't believe the woman was contagious when she flew back to New York City and took a private car home. But out of an abundance of caution, Cuomo said health officials are contacting the woman's livery driver as well as the other passengers who were on her plane.
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