cases involving Florida or Floridians.

The Florida Department of Health previously identified Florida’s first two COVID-19 cases as a Manatee County man in his 60s and a Hillsborough County woman in her 20s who traveled to Italy. The Hillsborough County woman’s sister, a California resident who also traveled to Italy, is in isolation in the Tampa area.

The governor said his office has been alerted of a Florida resident in Washington state who had tested positive for COVID-19. The administration later learned five Florida residents who had been traveling from China tested positive and were placed in a 14-day quarantine.

"They’re not going to be released from quarantine until they have tested negative, so we don’t anticipate that having any impact on the people actually living in Florida,” DeSantis said Thursday.

Healthofficials have stressed that the health risk to the general population is low overall, and the individuals at greatest risk of infection are the elderly and people with pre-existing condition.

Dr. Robert "Wesley" Farr, a lecturer in the University of West Florida Department of Health, specializes in environmental health and infectious diseases. Offering his take on COVID-19, he said people should absolutely follow best practices like washing their hands and covering their coughs.

He added, however, that people shouldn't be living in fear or panicking.

"For people who are elderly or who have an immuno-suppressive condition or a compromised immune system, they may want to be more careful as far as avoiding travel and visiting a crowded places,” Farr said. "But for most healthy individuals, life should continue as normal."

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