Coronavirus live updates: Washington DC resident tests ‘presumptive positive’
US authorities say man in his 50s had no obvious contact with infection; two killed in China quarantine hotel collapse; Italy prepares to seal off northern region
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3.10am GMT
At least two people have been killed in the hotel collapse in eastern China overnight. The building was being used as a quarantine facility for people infected with Covid-19.
#UPDATE Two of the 50 people pulled from under the debris of a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou were found dead. pic.twitter.com/NWqbo8IcAJ
2.49am GMT
In the US, via Reuters: a man in his 50s has tested positive, with no immediately identifiable point of contact with the virus.
A person in Washington, DC, has had a “presumptive positive test” for the coronavirus, mayor Muriel Bowser said on Twitter on Saturday.
Late this afternoon, testing at the Public Health Lab at the DC Department of Forensic Sciences yielded its first presumptive positive coronavirus (COVID-19) case. Join me live at 7:30 p.m. for a briefing at the John A. Wilson Building.