On Jan. 30, The second CDC-confirmed case was announced in the husband of the first case jointly by Chicago, Cook County and Illinois departments of public health. He was also the first case of human-to-human transmission in the U.S. Read the press release in English,...
Month: January 2020
City of Chicago Announces First Local Patient with Travel-Related Case of 2019-Novel Coronavirus
On Jan. 24, the first CDC-confirmed case was announced in a Chicago area resident with a history of travel to Wuhan, China. Read the press release, City of Chicago Announces First Local Patient with Travel-Related Case of 2019-Novel Coronavirus...read here.
Second travel-related case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus detected in United States
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed the second infection with 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the United States has been detected in Illinois. The patient recently returned from Wuhan, China, where an outbreak of respiratory...