US reports first coronavirus death, Trump calls for calm
US officials speak at a press conference in Seattle, King County, Washington, USA, yesterday on the first confirmed death in the US due to the coronavirus, in Washington State. – EPA pic, March 1, 2020.
THE first fatality from the novel coronavirus has been confirmed on US soil, as President Donald Trump yesterday urged Americans not to panic. Health officials said the man who died in Washington state was one of a handful with no known links to global hot zones to have contracted the virus – indicating the pathogen was now likely spreading in communities.
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