One is a healthcare worker at a hospital in Rhode Island; the other traveled in Egypt recently.

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Correction: The Health Department has not identified the hospital where one of the women who has tested positive for coronavirus works. An earlier version of this story incorrectly named a specific hospital.

PROVIDENCE — The state Health Department reports two additional Rhode Islanders have tested positive for coronavirus.

The first is a woman in her 50s, the department said in a news release Tuesday afternoon. Her recent travel history includes travel to Egypt.

The second is a woman in her 30s who is a healthcare worker at a hospital in Rhode Island. The source of her infection is currently unknown and being investigated, the release said.

Both women are recovering at home, the release said.

They are Rhode Island’s fourth and fifth positive cases.

As with all cases of this strain of coronavirus in Rhode Island, health officials are extensively tracing the people with whom the infected women have had contact. All people who have had direct, face-to-face contact with these people are being instructed to self-quarantine.

Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, director of the Health Department, will provide further information at a news conference Wednesday at 4 p.m.; the time was moved back on Wednesday morning.

As of Tuesday afternoon, five people have tested positive and 58 have tested negative, while the tests for another 24 are pending. About 270 people are under self-quarantine because they have had direct contact with someone who has tested positive.

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