Baby diagnosed with coronavirus in Australia, California declares emergency after death
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A baby in South Australia has been diagnosed with coronavirus after its mum first came down with the illness.
SA Health announced the baby and another new case this afternoon, taking the total number of cases for the state to seven, according to news.com.au.
The baby belongs to a 40-year-old woman who was also diagnosed with the virus after just returning from Iran.
SA Health say the mother and baby are “doing well” in hospital. The other case is in a 58-year-old man, who arrived from Taiwan on March 3, at Flinders Medical Centre.
In another development California has declared a state of emergency after announcing its first coronavirus death, bringing the US death toll from the disease to 11.
The 71-year-old man, who died in a hospital near Sacramento, had underlying health conditions and had been on a cruise ship, said officials.
The White House moved on Wednesday to expand testing nationwide for the disease.
There are now at least 150 reported US patients with Covid-19 in 16 states.
Authorities have confirmed more than 92,000 cases of the virus worldwide, of which more than 80,000 are in China. More than 3,000 people have died globally, the vast majority in China.
Ten of the 11 US deaths were in Washington state, but the outbreak has also flared up in Texas and Nebraska.
Washington and Florida both declared states of emergency over the weekend to help prevent the coronavirus.
The California man who died is believed to have been exposed to the disease while travelling last month on a Princess Cruise ship that departed from San Francisco and visited Mexico.
Meanwhile Senegalese authorities reported two new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, bringing the total to four since the first case was confirmed there on Monday.
Senegal is the only sub-Saharan African country besides Nigeria to have confirmed cases of the virus, which has infected more than 94,000 people and killed over 3,200 around the world.
