There. Reporter on thursday, the first person from Contra Costa County died from the coronavirus good this person was in her 70s and had a pre existing medical condition. The author recently traveled to europe. The Health Officer wouldnt release more details than that. We do expect the numbers of cases and dust to go up before they start to go down. Reporter contra costa Health Officer said there are 42 cases of coronavirus in the company and they are expanding tests every single day. He says they are preparing a hold order to prepare positive and negative test to be reported. At that point, we will have better information about the total number of testing that is going on. Reporter right now, most testing is being done in private labs. The countys Public Health lab is performing about 4100 tests a day but that is a small fraction of the total number of tests being done. Weeks ago, the county also started identifying available ventilators and reporting out to the state and federal gove