St. Louis County has second tentative positive COVID-19 case
A second person in St. Louis County has tentatively been ruled to have COVID-19 but is waiting for confirmation from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“This is a domestic travel related case and the patient is in the age range of 50-60 years of age,” the St. Louis County Public Health Department said in a news release Friday.
This case is not connected with the county’s first positive case on March 7.
“Anyone identified during the investigation as a close contact or at risk of exposure to this patient will be contacted directly by the St. Louis County Department of Public Health,” according to the news release.
The first St. Louis County positive case involved a 20-year-old Ladue woman whose father and sister went to a father-daughter dance on March 7. The family’s lawyer has maintained that they were not told to stay home while the county has said they were told to self-quarantine.
The 20-year-old woman had been in Italy, where over 1,200 deaths related to COVID-19 have been reported.
No positive cases have been reported in the metro-east as of Friday night.
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported that as of Friday, there were 46 positive cases in the state.
