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, Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC, confirmed that all five infected U.S.-based patients had previously traveled to Wuhan.across 26 states are under the CDC’s investigation related to the virus. In addition to the five positive cases, 32 have come back negative and 73 tests are pending as of Sunday evening. Messonnier described the risk of outbreak in the U.S. as “low” during a recent press conference.
“At this time in the United States, '2019 novel coronavirus' is not spreading in our communities,” she said, according to NPR., Taiwan, Australia, and Macau have each reported five positive cases of the infection as well. Eight people in both Thailand and Hong Kong have contracted the disease, and Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, France, Canada, and Vietnam have all reported less than five cases per country. No deaths have been reported outside of China.
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