The 14th person has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, in the U.S. on Wednesday, according to the country's Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

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The patient who is in California was evacuated recently from central China's Wuhan City and had been under a 14-day federal quarantine.

A previous coronavirus case was reported a few days earlier among the same group of evacuees, the CDC said.