First U.S. Death Confirmed due to the Coronavirus

The Trump administration announced on Saturday, there are travel restrictions affecting Iran, Italy, and South Korea in response to the coronavirus outbreak, following the first season from the virus in the United States.

Vice President Pence said the existing travel ban on Iran would extend to foreign nationals who had been in that country the past 14 days. The State Department is also increasing its warning advising Americans not to travel to parts of Italy and South Korea affected by the virus.

Right before White House’s news conference, health officials in Washington state confirmed that a person diagnosed with coronavirus in King County had died. President Trump described the patient as a “wonderful woman” and a “medically high-risk patient” in her late 50’s at the news conference. Jeffrey Duchin, cheif health officer for Seattle and King County later clarified that the patient was a man in his 50’s with underlying conditions.

Washington state announced late Friday that a high school student in Snohomish County, just north of Seattle, tested positive for the deadly virus and was in home isolation in a suspected community transmission case. State health officials also said a woman in her 50’s in King County tested positive after traveling to Daegu, South Korea, the site of a major coronavirus outbreak. She, too, is in home isolation.