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Yonnie3

(17,431 posts)
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 02:25 PM Mar 2020

VDH tweets there are now 8 COVID19 cases in Virginia

#8 The presumptive positive case is a resident of Loudoun County who is in their 40s. The individual is believed to have come in contact with a person with COVID-19 while attending Christ Church, Georgetown in Washington, D.C., which has reported a case.

#6 & 7 The Virginia Beach Health Department announced that two residents have tested “presumptive positive” for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). These cases mark the first two cases in the Virginia Beach Health District, and the sixth and seventh cases in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ... The two patients (a male in his 60’s and female in her 50’s) traveled on a Nile River cruise, which recently reported COVID-19 cases. They returned to United States on March 5.

Case #8 is the first which seems to have been not related to international travel.

Above information is from the press releases linked in the tweet.
Here is the tweet text:

Va Dept of Health
@VDHgov
Virginia has 8 "presumptive positive" cases of COVID-19. Virginia Beach Health District Confirms two “Presumptive Positive” Cases of COVID-19: http://ow.ly/9eyO50yI5oF; Loudoun County Announces First “Presumptive Positive” Case of COVID-19: http://ow.ly/fjee50yI5oE



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VDH tweets there are now 8 COVID19 cases in Virginia (Original Post) Yonnie3 Mar 2020 OP
That Georgetown Church case might be a setup for the whole region, unfortunately. JudyM Mar 2020 #1
Yes, taking care. Yonnie3 Mar 2020 #3
Odd..first c-pac now a church--perhaps some RestoreAmerica2020 Mar 2020 #2

JudyM

(29,233 posts)
1. That Georgetown Church case might be a setup for the whole region, unfortunately.
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 03:10 PM
Mar 2020

Waiting to see, but jeez (so to speak), hundreds of churchgoers were asked to self-quarantine.

Take care of yourself, Y3.

Yonnie3

(17,431 posts)
3. Yes, taking care.
Tue Mar 10, 2020, 03:38 PM
Mar 2020

I'm no spring chicken and have been taking precautions for flu already. I'm a professional recluse now that I'm not working gigs.

Main worry here is TJ working at the medical center. She's not around patients or the general public so if she and her co-workers are careful they (and me by extension) have better odds than many to stay healthy.

The church may be significant. In a few more days we will know how significant.

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