Covid-19 Coronavirus Outbreak In The U.S. -- News Updates March 5, 2020

Daily Mail: Coast Guard delivers coronavirus testing kits to THOUSANDS of Grand Princess cruise ship passengers stranded 400-miles off coast of California as number of cases in the U.S. rises to 207 across 19 states

* The Grand Princess cruise ship has been banned from returning to San Francisco following a trip to Hawaii amid a suspected coronavirus outbreak onboard
* Two passengers who traveled on the same ship on a previous voyage last month between San Francisco and Mexico later fell ill and tested positive for the coronavirus
* The first was a 71-year-old man who died on Wednesday and became the state's first coronavirus death, while the second remains in hospital and is 'gravely ill'
* Eleven passengers and 10 crew members who are currently on the same ship have now reported symptoms that could turn out to be the coronavirus
* Sixty two passengers who were on the previous Mexican cruise where the two cases were detected remained on the ship for the Hawaii voyage as well and may have had contact with the two infected passengers
* The predicament of the Grand Princess cruise liner was reminiscent of the Diamond Princess vessel that was quarantined off the coast of Japan in February
* The death toll in the US now sits at 11 with more than 160 confirmed cases across the country
* An increase in testing countrywide has seen a jump in confirmed cases in Washington state, California and New York with Tennessee and Nevada each reporting their first cases in the last 24 hours

The US Coast Guard has delivered coronavirus test kits to a cruise ship that is being held 400 miles off the California coast amid fears of a suspected outbreak as the number of cases across the country rises to more than 170 in 19 states.

Thousands of passengers are currently on the Grand Princess cruise ship after it was banned on Wednesday from returning to its home port of San Francisco from a voyage to Hawaii after at least 20 people onboard fell ill.

It comes after two passengers who traveled on the same ship on a previous voyage last month between San Francisco and Mexico tested positive for the coronavirus and one later died - becoming California's first fatality from the disease.

Eleven passengers and 10 crew members who are currently on the same ship have now reported symptoms that could turn out to be the coronavirus, seasonal flu or the common cold.

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Covid-19 Coronavirus Outbreak In The U.S. -- News Updates March 5, 2020

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