A man in his 60s and a woman in her 30s who had traveled to countries with widespread transmission of the coronavirus could be Orange County’s newest cases of the infectious disease, according to a news release issued late Tuesday afternoon, March 3, by the Orange County Health Care Agency.

The release referred to “two presumptive positive cases of COVID-19” and said samples tested by the Health Care Agency were being sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for confirmation. Results are pending.

If confirmed, that would bring positive cases discovered so far in Orange County to three. The first infected person, who tested positive in February, has recovered, health officials said.

PRESS RELEASE: Our Public Health Laboratory today confirmed two presumptive positive cases of #COVID19, a man in his 60s and a female in her 30s with recent travel to countries with widespread transmission. Read more: https://t.co/TOdnHDcqNu pic.twitter.com/2NLLGutPyR — Health Care Agency (@ochealth) March 4, 2020

The Health Care Agency is “following up directly with all individuals who have had close contact with both cases and are at risk of infection,” the release said. But it did not include information on where in Orange County the two people live or where they had traveled overseas.

Orange County Health Care Agency public information officer Jessica Good declined in an email to comment beyond what was in the release.

The release quoted Dr. Nichole Quick, the county’s health officer: “The more you look, the more likely you are to find it. Now that our Public Health Laboratory is able to perform COVID-19 testing, we expect to see more cases in Orange County.”