Sixteen more people have tested positive for the new coronavirus, health officials announced Wednesday, bringing to 33 the number of patients in Colorado infected with the virus as the state tries to control the spread of the global outbreak.
The new cases mark the first sign of “limited community spread” of COVID-19 — the highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the new virus — in the state, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said in a news release.
Gov. Jared Polis will hold a news conference about the state’s coronavirus response at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
“Limited community spread (or transmission) means there are cases and outbreaks in certain communities where people became infected, and we are unable to identify the source,” the department said in the release.
Six of the first 10 individuals announced Wednesday were exposed to the illness during travel, health officials said.
Exposure for the remaining four people remains under investigation. Those individuals include two women from Gunnison County, one man in Eagle County and a woman from Arapahoe County.
The new cases are located in Pitkin, Eagle, Gunnison, Denver, Jefferson, and Arapahoe counties, health officials said in the news release. They include four men and six women, mostly older than 40 with one woman in her 20s. Eight of the 10 people who tested positive are older than 50.
Information has not yet been released on six new cases announced Wednesday afternoon in Aspen.
“For limited community spread, community-based interventions such as school dismissals, event cancellations and creating employee plans to work remotely can help slow the spread of COVID-19,” health officials said in the news release. “If there is ongoing spread in a community, local and state officials, in consultation with federal officials when appropriate, will make decisions about implementing community interventions based on the scope of community spread. Community interventions may be different for each community.”
The nine new cases in Aspen are people who had been in contact with an Australian visitor who tested positive for COVID-19 after returning home, while tests on one other who also had contact with the Australian is still pending, the Pitkin County Incident Management Team said in a news release.
Three other individuals who had contact with the Australian visitor are under isolation order but have refused to be tested, Karen Koenemann, director of Pitkin County Public Health, said in a conference call with reporters. She did not say why they refused testing, but indicated they have followed isolation orders.
In Jefferson County, a man and woman in their 70s were exposed to the virus during international travel after being aboard a cruise, county health officials said in a news release. They are currently in isolation at home.
“Our team is working closely with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to further investigate these cases,” Dr. Mark B. Johnson, executive director of Jefferson County Public Health, said in a news release. “We hope these patients recover quickly and completely.”
All 10 tests are considered “presumptive positives” until the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms the cases.
Pitkin County health officials on Monday said 13 people — all visiting Australians — who had contact with the Australian woman in Aspen were experiencing “fairly mild” symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
The 13 individuals were in isolation as they awaited results from the state lab.
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