NEARLY 200 GEORGIA RESIDENTS BEING MONITORED FOR CORONAVIRUS

Georgia health officials says roughly 200 residents are being monitored for the coronavirus after recently returning from China.

None of the residents have shown symptoms of the virus or visited Hubei province — the epicenter of the outbreak.

Health officials reportedly didn’t use the word quarantine, instead, phrasing it that people are being isolated in their homes for 14 days, which is considered the virus’s incubation period.

Officials have reportedly been calling each traveler, letting them know of the potential symptoms of the virus and the importance of staying at home during the timeframe. Residents under quarantine were given an online tool that notifies them when their isolation time is up.

There are no reported coronavirus infections in Georgia as of this morning and commercial flights have been suspended between Atlanta and China.

There are 13 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in six states throughout the U.S.

About 393 people in 24 countries around the globe have been infected with the virus since it was first reported back in December and 99 percent of cases still remain in China. China reported 97 more deaths today, increasing the total to 1,113 in mainland China as the country remains closed off from the rest of the world and some 60 million people remain under virtual quarantine.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially named the disease caused by the virus as COVID-19 to show the disease comes from a new coronavirus discovered in 2019 and to avoid geographic or animal designation.

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