A woman carries lanterns baring the words "Yuan Dan," which means the first day in the year, as she prepares to hang on the street on New Year's Eve in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, Dec. 31.
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Two more Diamond Princess evacuees at Lackland test positive for coronavirus
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2/28/2020
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American passengers evacuated from the cruise ship the Diamond Princess arrived at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland on Feb. 17, 2020. They are being held in quarantine there to determine whether they have been infected by the novel coronavirus.
Eight of the 144 evacuees brought to San Antonio from the Diamond Princess cruise ship are infected with the new coronovirus, federal officials said Friday.
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The number is likely to go up as three more evacuees at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland are awaiting confirmation that they have the virus. They had tested positive before they left the ship, which had become a quarantine site while it was docked in Yokohama, Japan. The tests done here by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were for confirmation.
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American passengers evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan disembark Monday morning, Feb. 17, 2020 from a Kalitta Air flight at Kelly Field. The passengers had been quarantined on the cruise ship as part of coronavirus control measures.
Of the eight, two were confirmed Friday by the CDC.
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A bus leaves a port where the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship is docked Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 67,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Five other Diamond Princess passengers from the group of 144 people who were originally quarantined at Lackland have tested positive for the virus, COVID-19. One was transported out of state this week to be reunited with a spouse who was isolated at another medical facility after also being diagnosed with the virus.
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Mayor Ron Nirenberg (right) speaks at a news conference Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that one evacuee at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland is infected with the coronovirus and is in isolation at a hospital.
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SAFD shared a photo of what one of these dedicated ambulances look like. The photo shows the walls in the special unit completely covered with plastic sheets. Hood said the vehicle is dedicated to this event "throughout" and will not be used on the streets of San Antonio.
Confirmed and suspected coronavirus patients are being isolated in a separate wing of the Texas Center for Infectious Disease, a state-run tuberculosis hospital on the South Side.
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The novel coronavirus has left many locals in fear as many stores in the city are "completely" out of surgical facial masks.
The two-week quarantine for 134 of the cruise ship passengers at Lackland, who arrived Feb. 17, is expected to lift Monday.
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@MacPenMedia: Everyone, the person in #sanantonio with coronavirus is ALREADY under quarantine. They've BEEN IN quarantine since arriving here - so as long as protocols are being strictly followed, there shouldn't be an issue. Hope they can come up with a vaccine soon.
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Ming Qi, founder and CEO of HelloPharma on Austin Highway, is unable to fill all her orders now due to the outbreak of the coronavirus in China, where she has bottles and packaging made.
One person from an earlier group of 91 evacuees from Wuhan, China, was found to be infected with the virus. That patient will not be released until testing negative for the virus twice, at least two days apart.
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Jennifer McQuiston, right, had been in charge of operations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland while a first group of evacuees were quarantined there. She spoke at a news conference on Feb. 13, 2020, with Mayor Ron Nirenberg.
The other 90 evacuees were released Feb. 20 from their quarantine at Lackland, after being declared healthy by the CDC.
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Methodist Healthcare System Chairman Roy Campbell (left) and CEO Jaime Wesolowski unveil the new name for Texsan Heart Hospital, which is Methodist Texsan Hospital. Bob Owen/rowen@express-news.net
Lauren Caruba covers health care and medicine in the San Antonio and Bexar County area. Read her on our free site, mySA.com, and on our subscriber site, ExpressNews.com. | lcaruba@express-news.net | Twitter: @LaurenCaruba
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