Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Tarrant County is reporting its first presumed local transmission of COVID-19 (coronavirus.)
The patient is a resident of Grand Prairie who had no known contact and has no recent travel history.
In a statement Tarrant County Public Health director Vinny Taneja said that the patient has been isolated at home since developing symptoms.
COVID-19 causes respiratory illness, with cough, fever and shortness of breath. It may lead to bronchitis, severe pneumonia and even death.
There were 57 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Texas; 28 of them in the DFW area. One person, an man in his 90s died of the illness in Southeast Texas.
Press release: Sixth positive COVID-19 case in Tarrant County pic.twitter.com/lOucUH2sUx
— Tarrant County (@TarrantCountyTX) March 17, 2020
Here are some recommended by health experts and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention if you feel ill over the next few weeks or months.
Take a deep, cleansing breath. If you’re congested, do the best you can. If you are developing COVID-19, the upper-respiratory illness that results from infection by the novel coronavirus, you are most likely going to recover. Be calm.
Do an inventory of symptoms. Dry cough is one. Are you also short of breath? Do you have a fever? Normal body temperature is 98.6 Fahrenheit, and anything above 100 degrees is considered a fever. These symptoms mean you’re sick with something.
Other flu-like symptoms of COVID-19 include chills, body aches, sore throat, headache, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and runny nose.
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