Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Thursday that state officials had confirmed the first case of community spread of the coronavirus, warning that further transmission in communities immediately adjacent to the nation's capital were inevitable.
At a press conference in Annapolis, Hogan said health officials had identified a case in Prince George's County, in a man who had not traveled out of state.
Hogan raised the state's emergency activation system to its highest level, activating the National Guard in an effort to battle the virus. He signed an order prohibiting gatherings and events of more than 250 people, and an order closing the cruise ship terminal at the Port of Baltimore.
Karen Salmon, Maryland's Superintendent of Schools, said that all public schools in the state would be closed for two weeks beginning on Monday.
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This virus is acting like a bio-weapon the way it spreads. Makes you wonder, huh? Ironic that a bio-lab (like the one in Atlanta) was only a mile away from the Wuhan market.
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