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February 25, 202010:48 AMUpdated 4 years ago

JUDGE ORDERS TALKS OVER PLANS TO MOVE VIRUS PATIENTS TO A CALIFORNIA CITY

By Kanishka Singh, Bhargav Acharya

3 Min Read

Feb 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge barred the government from relocating
coronavirus patients to southern California for another week on Monday and
ordered it to discuss the move with state officials.

U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton had on Friday halted the government’s plans
to send infected cruise ship passengers to a state-owned facility in Costa Mesa,
after the Orange County city of 113,000 filed a legal action against the
proposal.

The city had said the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump was using
the coronavirus crisis as a “political weapon” because he had cancelled a plan
to send the patients to a more suitable facility in Republican Alabama.

At a hearing late on Monday, Staton ordered federal officials to share
information with local officials before a new hearing on Mar. 2. Media reports
said so many people had crowded the courtroom that some had to sit on the floor.

City officials said they had been told on Thursday evening that infected
patients would arrive in Costa Mesa over the weekend from Travis Air Force Base,
a quarantine site in Northern California, the LA times reported.

Jennifer Keller, an attorney from Costa Mesa, argued that it was not appropriate
to quarantine patients with the COVID-19 virus in the city’s Fairview
Developmental Center as it is located on a busy street in a residential
neighborhood.

The state health commission and government offices did not immediately respond
to overnight requests for comment.

The United States has not seen the virus spread through its communities the way
that China and a few other countries have experienced, but health officials are
preparing for the possibility.

There have been 53 confirmed U.S. cases of the new coronavirus so far - 14 in
people diagnosed in the United States and 39 among Americans repatriated from
the outbreak’s epicenter of Wuhan, China, and from the Diamond Princess cruise
ship quarantined in Japan, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.

The Trump administration is asking Congress for $2.5 billion to fight the virus.

The overall death toll from the outbreak in mainland China had crossed 2,600 as
of the end of Monday.

Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Bhargav Acharya in Bengaluru; editing by
Philippa Fletcher

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