A second person in California appears to have contracted the new coronavirus through community transmission, according to news reports.

The individual, a 65-year-old resident of Santa Clara County, developed COVID-19 — the disease caused by the new coronavirus — without traveling to a region affected by the outbreak, or having contact with a known case, according to The Washington Post. Few details are known about the new case, which authorities have not officially announced.

The news comes just two days after the first report of likely community spread of the virus in the U.S., in Solano County, California. These two cases are about 90 miles apart, and are not thought to be connected, the Post reported.

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This could mean that the virus is spreading among at least two separate communities in California.

"I think there's a strong possibility that there's local transmission going in California," Jennifer Nuzzo, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told the Post. "And I think there’s a possibility other states are in the same boat. They just haven’t recognized that yet."

Because of a problem with diagnostic test kits, the U.S. has tested very few people for suspected cases of coronavirus. That means community transmission could be more easily missed, Live Science previously reported.

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