Only About a Dozen People Reportedly Remain Under CDC-Recommended Self Quarantine in Pasadena

According to an interview with Pasadena Now since Feb. 3, the Centers for Disease Control has recommended 61 Pasadena residents be placed in quarantine, collectively.

Pasadena Now has been attempting to get the exact number of people asked to self-quarantine for a week since Goh first told the publication that “more than” 50 people had been asked to self-quarantine, collectively, since Feb. 3.

According to Goh, the health department was receiving the names in batches when the CDC first began supplying the names of local residents that needed to self-quarantine.

“In the beginning they were giving us a lot of names because they were kind of backlogged — like 10 names at once,” Goh said. “Now because of restrictions on traveling and because everyone who was in China is pretty much home and because people are not wanting to travel as much, our numbers are really dwindling. We are not getting names every day now because there are fewer people who are coming home from China and they’re already here probably. They’re already back home.

“Everybody else has completed 14 days or not did not become confirmed cases with COVID-19.”

According to Goh just about a dozen people remain under quarantine. However, that number can change at any time because the situation remains fluid.

So far, only one Pasadena resident has officially tested positive for the virus. Several staff members in the Pasadena Unified School District have been tested.

On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered all bars closed and restaurants to cut their capacity in half.

The CDC is now recommending halting gatherings of more than 50 people across the United States for the next eight weeks, citing the risk of the coronavirus.

So far 63 people have died in the United States from the virus. There are 3,499 confirmed cases of the virus.

Worldwide there are now 156,400 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 5,833 deaths and 73,968 recovered from COVID-19.

— A newborn baby tested positive for the coronavirus in London, marking the youngest case of the disease, according to The Guardian. The baby’s mother was tested positive for COVID-19 when she was taken to a hospital with suspected pneumonia days before giving birth.

In Pasadena, all non-essential events have been canceled and schools have been closed.

Less than 15,000 people have been tested for the virus since the country rolled out testing.

“All the public health departments combined commercial labs can run many, many tests, but they just started this week,” Goh said. “So they are trying to keep up with the demand, which as you can imagine is huge. And as they increase their capacity, then it’ll be great for public health because we’ll have more data and we will have a better picture and able to make decisions better for how to protect us because we’ll have a better picture, an accurate, more accurate picture of how many people have COVID, what do the infections look like and where are they.”