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One person is hospitalized while five others are being monitored at home, Ferrer said. The county’s first patient, a Chinese national who was diagnosed in January, has recovered from the virus, she said.
“Three of the new cases were travelers who were traveling together in northern Italy,” Ferrer said at a news conference. Two others are relatives of a person who was infected with the coronavirus outside of the county, she said. The sixth case is a person who works in a field that exposes them to international travelers, Ferrer added.
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Exposure to travelers? Gate agent? Ticket agent? Hotel? Airport screener? Taxi driver?
“The six cases were confirmed by a local lab, Ferrer said.... None of the patients were exposed through community transmission.
“All of our six new cases are linked to an assumed known exposure,” Ferrer said. “There’s either a travel history to an area with an outbreak. There’s exposure to known travelers coming from areas where there’s an outbreak. Or the person is a close contact with a confirmed case.”
On Tuesday night, Kaiser Permanente West L.A. Medical Center confirmed it was monitoring a coronavirus patient who was self-quarantined in their home.