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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. The Alabama Public Health Department is monitoring dozens of people for coronavirus (COVID-19) who are self monitoring themselves at home  after traveling and arriving back home from China in Alabama.

The health department monitoring started in early February and the monitoring follows guidance from the Centers for Disease Control.

"All who are being monitored for Coronavirus are not sick at this time and do not have symptoms so far , they are asymptomatic," said Dr. Burnestine Taylor of the state health department.

Between 50 to 100 people who have traveled to Wuhan China Hubei province or mainland China are being monitored in locations throughout alabama

All those who are being monitored stay in self-isolation and maintain daily contact with the health department for 14 days.

The number of those being monitored in Alabama changes daily due to  the numbers of Chinese returning …

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Calhoun County Emergency Management Agency director Michael Barton said his agency didn’t have details on the COVID-19 patient. He said the state doesn’t release much information about those cases to avoid violating patient privacy laws.

The Alabama Department of Public Health this morning updated its list of COVID-19 cases in the state to show 46 cases of the new coronavirus, including the first case reported in Calhoun County.

The new statewide number includes seven more cases since the Public Health Department last updated its list Tuesday afternoon. Calhoun is the only new county to report a case in the latest update, with other counties reporting additional cases.

Among the cases reported on Tuesday was one in St. Clair County; the county board of education there said a student had tested positive…

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PASSENGERS travelling from China to the UK were NOT screened for coronavirus when they arrived in England.

Health authorities did not screen the passengers infected with possible coronavirus that just arrived from China into London sparking fears the deadly coronavirus could spread in Britain.

The city of Wuhan and the neighbouring city of Huanggang are on lockdown as the Chinese authorities desperately try to contain the virus.

There are at least 17 dead  in China and 550 confirmed cases across six countries - but today the British government warned the death toll is likely to be higher.

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passengers landing in the UK are being fobbed off with leaflets telling them to call the NHS if they feel unwell.

Meanwhile at oth…

Jack Schaap pedophile pastor  62, pleaded guilty to taking a 16-year-old girl he was counseling at First Baptist across state lines for sex, and in March 2013 he was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. He is serving his sentence in Ashland, Kentucky.

“Five years of living in China in that city, never seen anything like it," said Daniel Isaiah Williams, who left China during the Coronavirus outbreak.

Daniel Isaiah Williams is a math teacher and soccer coach in Dongguan, a city in China near Hong Kong.

"One morning, one of my students came into my classroom and he said coach Williams there’s a possibility that we may get out of school for this virus and I said oh you’re just wishful thinking," said Williams.

He said weeks later, the restrictions started and happened very quickly. They started with wearing masks everywhere to travel restriction even quarantined to your home in Doungguan.

"To get to the school I have to ride the subway. To get to the subway…

The individual, who has not been publicly identified, is expected to full recover from the virus, formally known as COVID-19, according to the Riverside University Health System.

The infected person is currently listed in good condition at a medical facility in Northern California, according to Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County public health officer. There are no incidents of exposure or "locally acquired confirmed cases" within the county.

Santa Clarita man recently evacuated with wife from cruise ship in Japan confirms he has coronavirus

The Santa Clarita man who was recently evacuated with his wife from a coronavirus-stricken ship in Japan has confirmed he has the deadly virus.

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Officials said the woman, who was evacuated from Wuhan, China, in early February, met the criteria for release after testing negative for the virus twice. Both of the tests were administered more than 24 hours apart, but a separate lab test that was pending when was released revealed a positive test result.

Mayor issues state of disaster, public health emergency in San Antonio over coronavirus

Birmingham plans to use the army to provide extra capacity for its door-to-door COVID-19 vaccinating program.

As the latest figures showed a rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the city over the past five days, the council's deputy leader Brigid Jones said council staff had been redeployed to its "drop-and-collect" coronavirus testing service.

Ms Jones told a meeting of the  on Friday (September 25) that the initiative involved going door to door in high-risk areas offering testing kits to those with or without symptoms.

She told the meeting: "We have been in talks with the military about them giving us some extra capacity for drop-and-collect.

"It's very much in an extra capacity, feet-on-the-ground sense. It's literally just to support the civilian effort side of things and we'll be in a position next week to confirm whether or not they will be providing extra capacity and how that might be working."

Ms Jones said of the do…

Coronavirus Testing Dog and Cat

The cats were swabbed as part of a study being conducted at Texas A&M University to understand how pets living in “high-risk” households may be impacted by COVID-19.

The cats were in separate homes in Brazos County — and asymptomatic.

One cat began sneezing after a visit at his house from researchers.

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A nasal swab sample is collected from Crocket, a study participant from Bryan, Texas. (Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences)

Dr. Sarah Hamer, an epidemiologist, told KBTX-TV Friday that her team was testing dogs and cats who live in homes where the coronavirus has infected at least one person.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — PSECU headquarters in Harrisburg is taking precautions after an employee had been in contact with a person who recently traveled to Italy and may have been exposed to the coronavirus.

In a press release obtain from the Department of Health PSECU said it understands the individual who traveled to Italy was tested for the virus and is not being quarantined.

Officials said the PSECU employee has not exhibited any symptoms of the virus, and there is no reason to believe that this person has been exposed. However, as a cautionary measure, the employee will remain at home until the individual who was potentially exposed has been cleared.

PSECU also said the following:

To address the situation, we immediately reached out to the PA Health Line for direction and pro…

When Yvette Stephens arrives at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday morning to begin her shift as a security guard, she'll be carrying a dozen or so respiratory masks to share with her co-workers who are concerned that a passenger with coronavirus could be arriving at their terminal.

Stephens bought the masks at a nearby Home Depot store because she said no one at the airport has handed them out to the thousands of workers who deal directly with passengers and their belongings.

"We are on the front lines of this, and we're not equipped," Stephens said. "I bring my own mask and my own gloves to work."

As coronavirus has spread rapidly from China through Asia into Europe, the Middle East and North America, the union that represents more than 10,000 workers at Newark, Kennedy and La Guardia airports says its members have not…

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Northrop Grumman to send home some workers in its Melbourne facility after an employee tested positive.

Northrop spokesman Tim Paynter said in a statement Wednesday afternoon that the employee has been quarantined and is receiving treatment. Workers in "workspaces the employee visited" were sent home so that the facility could be sanitized.

The company has asked employees who had close contact with the sickened worker to self-isolate at home.

Asked how many people will continue to work on the campus, Paynter said Northrop wouldn’t comment beyond its initial statement. FLORIDA TODAY received reports from Northrop staff that the infected employee worked in two out of the campus’s eight buildings while exhibiting symptoms.

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Those buildings have been closed for cleaning, employees said, but many people will return to work at the campus Th…

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LOMA LINDA, Calif. - Loma Linda University Medical Center has set up an overflow tent to treat the increasing number of patients they're receiving suffering from the flu.

The hospital says they've been receiving a high volume of flu patients in just the last two weeks.

The medical episode comes in the wake of Orange County's first reported flu-related death of this season. The OC Health Care Agency confirmed that a 65-year-old man from Tustin who had underlying health conditions died of complications related to influenza B infection.

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The number of dead and cases of coronavirus infection continued to climb on the eve of Florida’s soft “reopening."

Three more Hillsborough County residents have died from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus. Those deaths were among 15 reported by the Florida Department of Health on Sunday, bringing the statewide death toll for the novel coronavirus to 1,403. Another 90 were hospitalized across the state.

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CHICAGO  An Illinois resident has tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Cook County Department of Public Health.

The tests resulted in “presumptive” positives and will have to be confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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