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Source: Reuters
U.S. authorities are not yet seeing spikes in coronavirus cases in places that are reopening but it was still too early to determine such trends, health secretary Alex Azar said on Sunday.
We are seeing that in places that are opening, were not seeing this spike in cases, Azar said on CNNs State of the Union program. We still see spikes in some areas that are, in fact, closed.
However, Azar said identifying and reporting new cases takes time. A critical part of reopening will be surveillance of flu-like symptoms in the population and other hospital admissions data, as well as testing of asymptomatic individuals, he said.
Its still early days, Azar cautioned in an interview with CBS Face the Nation. He said data will take some time to come in from states that reopened early such as Georgia and Florida.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-idUSKBN22T0HN