3 test positive for coronavirus in Maryland, Gov. Hogan declares State of Emergency‘

Boy, he didn’t hesitate, did he?

BALTIMORE — Three Maryland residents have tested positive for coronavirus/COVID-19, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan announced Thursday evening.

All three people with the virus live in Montgomery County — a married man and woman in their 70s and a woman in her 50s. All three are quarantined in their homes right now, are in good condition, and their symptoms are abating.

All three cases are also travel-related. The patients returned home from a trip overseas on February 20. Health officials would not say Thursday evening where they traveled to.

The patients did travel to a hospital to be tested for the virus, but health officials would not say which facility that was. Their specimens came back positive Thursday.

An investigation is underway to determine who the patients may have had contact with and where they traveled in the period of time between when they arrived back in the United States and when they developed COVID-19’s flu-like symptoms.

Hogan has declared a state of emergency to fast-track the response efforts and mobilize resources faster, but he stressed that Marylanders should remain calm and go to work and school as they normally would, while also taking reasonable precautions.