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Union wants clear protocols for early assessment, masking and isolation of patients, and for hospitals to be adequately supplied and staffed.

The city is also working with the school district to prepare safety messaging and contingency plans as needed.

The patient does not have a travel history and has not been in contact with a person with the disease.

Concerned about being exposed, the resident has largely stayed at home in a voluntary self-imposed quarantine.

Public health officials don't know exactly how the patient contracted the virus.

The state's priority is point of contact diagnostic testing -- they currently have 200 kits for testing and the CDC is sending more.

Solano County resident had no known exposure to the virus through travel and no close contact to a known-infected individual.

Nearly 70% of Alameda County high school students having bought vaping products reported doing so at a store.

The patients will quarantined while they battle the virus as county health officials aim to minimize the potential for exposure to the public.

A second patient there has symptoms; both patients had been quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and are not Napa County residents.