WASHINGTON - The US State Department on Monday warned against visiting China and said Americans should not travel to the Hubei province, given that the province's city of Wuhan is ground zero for a new deadly coronavirus.
The State Department also said the US may also expand travel screening at its borders and is closely monitoring 110 people to stop the virus that has killed at least 80 in China and is appearing around the globe from Singapore to Paris. "At this time in the US, this virus is not spreading in the community," said Nancy Messonnier, the CDC's director of the National Center for Immunisation and Respiratory Diseases.
That raises the possibility that people could travel and eventually infect others before realising they have the illness. But Messonnier said that so far there has been no clear evidence that the virus can spread during the incubation period before patients have symptoms. The US has five cases, with three confirmed over the weekend: two in Southern California and one in Maricopa County, Arizona. All the patients had recently been in Wuhan and are hospitalised.
Deaths in China climbed to 80, the National Health Commission said Monday. That's up from only two just over a week ago. There are at least 2,744 confirmed cases on China's mainland, and more than 30,000 people who are under observation.
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