Members of the Coronavirus Task Force hold a press briefing in Washington DC.
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The nation’s death toll rose to 12, 11 of them in Washington. Fifty-one of the confirmed cases are in King County, home to Seattle, where ten of the deaths have occurred, state health officials said. Many of the cases have stemmed from an outbreak at Life Care Center of Kirkland.
More than 3,300 deaths and almost 100,000 cases have been confirmed worldwide, the vast majority of them in mainland China.
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