Ut oh....not good....NYC.
Why would NYC health dept try to deny, if the text went out to NYPD?
Nigerian first case:
https://ncdc.gov.ng/news/227/first-case-of-corona-virus-disease-confirmed-in-nigeria
From a guy that had visited Italy.
The same reason China is lying about the 50,000 that have died.
To prevent PANIC.
The same reason Congress is briefed in secret and the rest of America is left to guess what’s going on.
The source of the story is unnamed from the Daily News.
“Why would NYC health dept try to deny, if the text went out to NYPD?”
Because that seems to be US policy. Having been to Queens several times, it is a zoo there, just like Manhattan, so better to let it spread ‘quietly’ than to try to stop the spread and risk creating a panic. Once it has spread then government can take the needed steps that people otherwise wouldn’t have liked. Basically the China approach.