New York City’s First Possible Coronavirus Patient Tested at Manhattan Hospital

People leave after buying face masks at a pharmacy at Myeongdong shopping district in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan. 31, 2020. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

New York City health officials said Feb. 1 that a possible coronavirus patient is being treated at Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital.

The patient, who is under 40, recently traveled to China and had a “fever and cough or shortness of breath without another common cause, like influenza and other cold viruses,” the health department said in a statement on Twitter.