<span style="color: #222222;">The US state of Ohio likely has more than 100,000 people carrying the new coronavirus, the state health department director said. Speaking at a press conference yesterday with state governor Mike DeWine to announce measures to slow the spread of the pandemic, director Amy Acton said Ohio had community spread of the virus.<br />'' <br />'' Director Amy Acton said Ohio has 11.7 million people. We know now just the fact of community spread says that at least one percent of our population is carrying this virus. So the math is over 100,000. So that just gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and is spreading quickly, she said.<br />'' <br />'' As of Sunday, 1,707 Americans had been tested, Business Insider reported, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These numbers are going to continue to grow. We know that these confirmed numbers are just a small fraction of the individuals who are infected already in the state of Ohio, Governor DeWine said during the press conference.<br />'' <br />''<br />''We're told by medical experts that whatever the number is today, it will double in six days and that just continues on and on, he said. Coronavirus cases in the United States surpassed 1,300 on Yesterday with nearly 40 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. </span>