New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state’s first COVID-19 coronavirus case is a female 39-year-old health care worker who had worked in Iran before she returned to the United States last week.
The woman, he added, didn’t take any public transportation and wasn’t believed to have been contagious while flying back to New York. However, some infectious disease experts and federal health officials have said they believe the virus can be spread without a patient showing any symptoms.
