A second Oklahoman has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to state health officials.According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, the case was also reported in Tulsa County and the patient is a woman in her 20s with travel history to Italy. Health officials said the woman tested positive for COVID-19 at the Oklahoma State Department of Health laboratory, pending confirmatory testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Gov. Kevin Stitt and health officials held a news conference Friday, March 6 to announce the state's first positive case of COVID-19. The first patient is a man in his 50s who recently traveled to Italy. He returned through Tulsa International Airport on Feb. 23. He started showing symptoms Feb. 29, at which time the state Health Department became involved. The man currently is being quarantined at home, Stitt said. The second case is not connected to the first case, according to health officials.As of Tuesday, March 10, state health officials said a total of 17 people in Oklahoma has been tested for the virus. Test results are pending for 11 people, and 15 people have tested negative.

A second Oklahoman has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to state health officials.

According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, the case was also reported in Tulsa County and the patient is a woman in her 20s with travel history to Italy.


Health officials said the woman tested positive for COVID-19 at the Oklahoma State Department of Health laboratory, pending confirmatory testing at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Gov. Kevin Stitt and health officials held a news conference Friday, March 6 to announce the state's first positive case of COVID-19. The first patient is a man in his 50s who recently traveled to Italy. He returned through Tulsa International Airport on Feb. 23. He started showing symptoms Feb. 29, at which time the state Health Department became involved.

The man currently is being quarantined at home, Stitt said.

The second case is not connected to the first case, according to health officials.

As of Tuesday, March 10, state health officials said a total of 17 people in Oklahoma has been tested for the virus. Test results are pending for 11 people, and 15 people have tested negative.



