(ANSA) - NEW YORK, 22 JAN - The coronavirus has also reached the last county in the United States where no cases have been recorded so far.
Each of the 3,000 US counties now had infections: the latest was that of Kalawao, Hawaii, the smallest and least populated county in the country, as reported by the Wall Street Journal citing data from Johns Hopkins University.
Kalawao, where about 70 people live, is located on the Kaluapapa peninsula, on the island of Molokai: connections with the outside world are limited, as steep cliffs cut off from the rest of the island and the only access by land is via a mule track. "It is a place of isolation - explained Father Patrick Killilea, the pastor of the church of San Francesco in Kalaupapa, the small town in the county - we know that the cliffs and the ocean have protected us". (HANDLE).