Three more cases of coronavirus were confirmed in California on Sunday, including two people in San Benito County, bringing the total number of U.S. cases to 11,000. The first death outside of China was reported in the Philippines on Sunday
There are at least 17,205 confirmed cases worldwide, with the majority in China, the World Health Organization said. There are 361 deaths worldwide — more than the death toll of SARS — with 360 of those deaths in China.
On Friday, U.S. officials declared a public health emergency. As a result, foreign nationals who have traveled to China in the last two weeks and aren’t immediate family members of U.S. citizens or permanent residents will be temporarily banned from entering the U.S., according to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar. Azar also announced that anyone entering the U.S. who has been in China’s Hubei province in the last two weeks will be subject to a two-week quarantine.
On Friday, U.S. health officials issued a federal quarantine order for the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak. The group will remain at a military base in Southern California until mid-February, said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The government hasn’t issued such a quarantine order in over 50 years, Messonnier said.
The State Department has warned Americans to avoid all travel to China due to the “rapidly spreading” outbreak. The decision came after the WHO designated the outbreak a global public health emergency.
As of Sunday, the flu-like virus had killed at least 304 people, all of them in China, according to the WHO.
