Passengers arriving in the United States on commercial airlines will be directed to one of 11 US airports for additional health assessments. Where people will be quarantined may differ depending on the operational plans laid out by states. Of the five new US cases announced on Monday, one is in Massachusetts and the other four in California. One of the patients in California was infected through close contact with someone in the same household who had been infected in China. It marked the second instance of person-to-person spread of the virus in the United States after such a case was announced last week in Illinois.

Source: New Strait Times February 04, 2020 01:07 UTC