Since the virus outbreak began, 259 people have died in China and as of Friday 11,791 confirmed cases in the country, according to Reuters.
People walk on a skybridge from the emergency room building at Providence Regional Medical Center after a spokesman from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said a traveler from China has been the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus, in (photo credit: REUTERS/LINDSEY WASSON)ByRACHEL WOLF, REUTERS