Coronavirus case confirmed in SD County

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A passenger flown to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar from Wuhan, China, was confirmed today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to have the deadly coronavirus.

The CDC is conducting a thorough contact investigation of the person to determine contacts and to assess if those contacts had high-risk exposures, according to Ana Toro, a CDC public affairs officer.

The case is the 13th coronavirus in the United States and seventh in California. Los Angeles and Orange counties both have one confirmed patient.

KGTV first reported the case, saying the patient was aboard...