(CNN)[Breaking news update at 1:15 p.m. ET]
A patient infected with the novel coronavirus in King County, Washington state, has died, a Washington Department of Health spokesperson said Saturday.
It's the first confirmed death from the coronavirus in the United States.
Further details were not immediately available. Health officials have scheduled a press conference for 1 p.m. local time (4 p.m. ET).
On Jan 24, 2020, we came to Wuhan, China, to support the local nurses in their fight against the COVID-19 infection. We entered the Wuhan isolation ward as the first batch of medical aid workers from Guangdong Province, China. The daily work we are doing is mainly focused on provision of oxygen, electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, tube care, airway management, ventilator debugging, central venous intubation, haemodialysis care, and basic nursing care such as disposal and disinfection.
"It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames..
That there are people in this country besides politicians, entertainers and criminals. And they do really good things.
A Solano County resident has tested positive for the new coronavirus but had not recently traveled to any foreign country where the virus is spreading and had not had contact with any people with confirmed cases, public health officials said Wednesday.