VA
Virginia: 10 Cases Confirmed
Nine people have tested positive for the virus in Virginia.
The patients include a U.S. Marine who is assigned to Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County and lives at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Prince William County, two Fairfax City residents, an Arlington resident, a Spotsylvania County resident in his 50s and a Loudoun County resident in their 40s.
The Marine “recently returned from overseas, where he was on official business,” the Pentagon said in a statement. He started showing symptoms on Feb. 14 and returned to the U.S. several days later.
One of the Fairfax City residents to test positive is a man in his 80s who went on a Nile River cruise and began to develop symptoms on Feb. 28, officials said. He was hospitalized March 5. His spouse later tested positive.
The Arlington patient is in their 60s and “developed fever, cough and shortness of breath after having returned from international travel,” the state health department said.
A Loudoun County resident in their 40s tested positive after “attending Christ Church Georgetown,” the county announced. The resident is a member of the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service, the county fire chief confirmed. “No other personnel who were in contact with this member are known to be experiencing any symptoms,” the chief wrote.
MD
Maryland: 12 Cases Confirmed
Twelve people have tested positive for the virus in Maryland.
Three people in Montgomery County were diagnosed after they took a cruise in Egypt, on the Nile River. They are a woman in her 50s and a married couple in their 70s, who did not travel as a group.
A Montgomery County resident in his 60s was diagnosed after traveling in Egypt and Thailand, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said.
A Montgomery County woman in her 60s also tested positive after visiting Egypt.
“This case is connected to the same Egyptian cruise ship as five of the state’s previous positive cases,” the governor said in a statement.
A Harford County woman in her 80s also caught the virus while traveling abroad. She visited Turkey, Hogan said. The Turkish Embassy said the woman had a “brief stopover” in Istanbul and flew from Albania.
A woman in her 50s who lives in Prince George’s County contracted the virus on a trip to Boston, County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said.
Two other Prince George’s County residents were diagnosed after returning from a cruise. Information was not released on where they traveled.
A Montgomery County man in his 20s recently traveled to Spain.
A Baltimore County man in his 60s worked at AIPAC in D.C., which was attended by others who tested positive.
A Prince George’s County man in his 60s was hospitalized. His travel history is being investigated.
By Sunday, a total of 73 tests for Maryland had come back negative.