FOOTAGE has emerged showing a young man wearing a medical mask sprawled on a New York sidewalk.

The bizarre incident in Queens has sparked fears the 25-year-old, who appeared to have fainted, might be a victim of coronavirus.

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6 The incident in Queens, New York, not surprisingly raised concerns because he was wearing a face mask

6 Police gather around the man as people look on

6 Paramedics treating the man on the sidewalk before taking him to hospital

NYPD officers responded to the Flushing neighborhood at 1.28pm yesterday after the man passed out on Main Street and hit his head on the sidewalk, a police source told DailyMail.com.

He was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital and was expected to survive, although his current condition and symptoms are not known.

New York state has reported two confirmed infected patients.

One is a female medical worker in Manhattan who had recently returned from Iran which is experiencing a major outbreak.

The other is a man in his 50s who lives in Westchester but works in Manhattan and apparently caught it in his community.

The video filmed in from Queens the scene shows the unidentified young man unconscious on the sidewalk with bystanders crowding around him until an ambulance arrives and takes him to hospital.

The person who posted the video said: “I don't know if it is related to the new coronavirus".

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The latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed 108 confirmed and presumed cases in the United States.

That tally consists of 60 reported by public health authorities in 12 states plus 48 among people repatriated from abroad, most of them from an outbreak aboard the British Diamond Princess cruise liner in Japan.

The number of US cases beyond the repatriated patients has mushroomed from just 15 reported by the CDC on Friday, as the first handful of infections believed to have emerged from community transmission were detected in the Pacific Northwest.

Before that, all US cases were deemed travel-related, essentially imported from abroad.

6 Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker Duane Clark works to sanitize surfaces at the Avenue X subway station Credit: AP:Associated Press

6 A person in a face mask walks through the downtown area of Manhattan Credit: REUTERS

6 Coronavirus precautions has been increased in New York since the death toll rises to nine in the US Credit: Getty Images - Getty

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