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LOS ANGELES: The first fatality from the novel coronavirus has been confirmed on US soil, a woman in her late 50s who was “medically high-risk,” President Donald Trump said Saturday, as he urged Americans not to panic.
Health officials said the woman in Washington state was one of a handful with no known links to global hot zones to have contracted the virus – indicating that the pathogen was now likely spreading in communities.
The death occurred in King county, the most populous in the state and home to Seattle, a city of more than 700,000 people, officials in the state told AFP.
The victim was not immediately identified.
“It is a sad day in our state as we learn that a Washingtonian has died from COVID