Case on the east coast, so Christina Coleman has been tracking this outbreak from the very beginning and she joins us live. Hi, kristin, well, the World Health Organizations latest number show 1700 new cases of coronavirus globally within the past 24 hours and federal officials are preparing for more people to get sick here in the u. S. So today more than 15,000 test kits are being sent out to Health Departments across the u. S. Test for the virus, this comes after problems with one of the three components of an initial test that was sent out is that states and complaints that some places like california simply didnt have enough tests to adequately handle a possible growing number of cases. Rhode island is now reporting its first presumptive positive case of coronavirus. This in addition to new cases in illinois and in Santa Clara County. Here in california the Santa Clara County case is the countys fourth case and the woman infected is direct contact of case officials announced on fri
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