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right now, the virus in the Bay Area, the governor and other state officials updating us on to local cases.
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We have team coverage on the impacts in the Bay Area, including the steps local schools are taking to protect students and staff.
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Good evening, everyone.
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And thanks for joining us.
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I'm Wendy Ryan, and I'm Jameson Mueller.
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Thank you for joining us.
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The Florida Department of Health waited more than 24 hours to tell the public about two local Corona virus cases, the CDC confirming those cases.
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Tonight, a patient from Hillsborough County and another from Manatee County and a Sarasota military academy now says one of its students and his mother are currently quarantine state health officials, monitoring nearly 200 people.
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Tonight, we're taking action for you.
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Pressing for answers are Isabel Gonzalez joins us live outside the testing lab for the Department of Health and Tampa Isabel, what can you tell us about the patients?
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We're told?
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They're both thankfully doing okay.
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One of them is a woman in her twenties out of Hillsborough County Health Department here, telling us that she has recently traveled to Italy.
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But the big question tonight is about that other patient.
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The big question here is that they don't know how he got the Corona virus.
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Florida's Tom Doctor trying to ease fears on the heels of our first Corona virus cases.
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The risk to the general population is currently loved.
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You can go about your normal business.
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We're learning one of the patients, a Manatee County man in his sixties with no travel history.
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Two countries of concern.
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Governor Rhonda Santa's expects more cases will follow but says the vast, vast majority of people who acquire it will not require hospitalization to Santa's.
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Urges anyone who has traveled to Asia, Italy and Iran to self isolate and anyone with symptoms to call the Health Department.
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Now public outcry after Florida authorities delay in alerting the community about these cases by 24 hours, plus a representative of the D.
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H in Sarasota, calling it a hoax to ABC Action News just hours before confirming it to be true.
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They call this a hoax completely false.
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Onley there backtrack hours later with the press release.
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Why would they call it a hoax?
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Such strong language I can on Lee comment on the fact that we're all here right now today to inform about this important development within our state.
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We have always been very pro active in terms of letting the public know that this is coming.
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Surgeon General Scott Ricky's insisting his office quickly informed the public as soon as the patients were evaluated and contained.
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We can also expect to get test results a whole lot quicker.
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That's because Miami Tampa in Jacksonville, Jacksonville are all running.
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The tests for the Corona virus live in Tampa.
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Um, Isabel Rose Alice, ABC Action News.
