WAKE COUNTY, N.C. — Five people in Wake County have tested positive for the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus), according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
State health leaders said those who tested positive traveled to Boston in late February to attend a BioGen conference. They also said several of the cases across the country have also been tied to the conference.
The cases are not linked to the person in Wake County last week who tested positive.
State health leaders said all are in isolation at their homes.
The North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health tested the cases which will now be confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab.
The Wake County Public Health Division is already contacting those who’ve had close contact with those who tested positive. The CDC defines close contact as someone being within 6-feet of a person with the COVID-19 infection for a prolonged period of time.