KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The father of a woman who has apresumptive-positive case of coronavirus took one of his daughters to a school function on Saturday night.
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page said during a news conference on Sunday that after learning of what the father had done, county health directors informed him he must remain at home or a “formal quarantine” would be issued. That would require that the family stay in their home “by the force of law.”
The patient has “conducted herself responsibly and maturely,” according to Page, and has complied with health department instructions.
“The way the family has reacted to this situation is really a tale of two reactions,” Page said, “and a study of how people should and should not react to the coronavirus.”
The family was told of the daughter’s diagnosis between 6 and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, according to Page. County officials have been in contact with the family since March 5 and the “constant feedback,” Page said, was to self-quarantine.
County officials announced the case, the first in Missouri, on Saturday night.
COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China.
