Los Angeles
the death toll due to Coronavirus in Us has reached to six, all in the state of Washington, officials said, signaling the contagion has taken root in the Pacific Northwest.
Vice President Mike Pence announced a treatment for the disease could be available by summer or early fall, but that a vaccine was farther off.
Pence, the administration’s pointman for the crisis, also said the government was moving to screen 100 percent of passengers flying in from Italy and South Korea, two serious virus hot zones.
Five of the six American fatalities have been from King county, the most populous in Washington state and home to Seattle, a city of more than 700,000 people. The sixth victim was from neighboring Snohomish county, officials said.
Coronavirus: Death in Us’s Washington rises to 6
