Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Saturday that the city has its first presumptive case of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Bowser announced on Twitter that local health officials received their first positive test of the virus on Saturday. Cases are considered presumptive until they are confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Bowser will provide more details at a press conference Saturday evening starting at 7:30 p.m.
Late this afternoon, testing at the Public Health Lab at the DC Department of Forensic Sciences yielded its first presumptive positive coronavirus (COVID-19) case. Join me live at 7:30 p.m. for a briefing at the John A. Wilson Building.
Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) March 7, 2020
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