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Maine CDC Health Advisory
February 4, 2020
Update and Interim Guidance on Outbreak of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (federal CDC) continues to closely monitor an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that was initially detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in December 2019. This federal CDC Health Alert Network (HAN) Update provides a situational update and interim guidance to state and local health departments that supersedes guidance in federal CDC's HAN 426 distributed on January 17, 2020.
- As of February 4, 2020, no cases of 2019-nCoV have been identified in Maine.
- If a patient meets the PUI criteria, the provider should contact Maine CDC immediately, by calling 1-800-821-5821, to determine if this patient needs to be considered a PUI for 2019-nCoV and be tested for infection.
