Of the ships arrival there incubating coronavirus. Is declaring a state of tomorrow. We want to get you straight emergency. Reporter the centers for to that News Conference with former fema director, mark the governor. Nouveau, help us break down some of what we heard here. Disease control, state health state of california, 29 that Emergency Declaration by the governor frees up resource officials and others are individuals that have working on plans about how this subsequently been tested ship due to come back in tomorrow will be brought back positive. S. In to San Francisco. Reporter official word came what did he say, a lot we loop into the phase of wednesday afternoon that the there. Grand princess would be cutting unprecedented. Weve got a cruise ship thats gonna be sitting out in the repatriation. Were typically back at the end her trip short after fuse that of january. Ocean, were gonna deal with the first phase of our it. I dont know if thats happened engagement as it relates to
Any highrisk factors she picked it up from the community. The patient is an older woman who has been hospitalizeded. And Officials Say she is doing well. Live coverage for you tonight. Lets start with tom vacar, outside the richmond lab where the cruise ship tests were analyzed. Tom . Reporter you can see pictures of the ship on a previous voyage coming into the bay. It was more important for the lab to get this information correct. Why were and are officials being so very careful about coronavirus . Among those tested, 46 persons were swabbed. 21 of those on the ship tested positive for the coronavirus. 24 tested negative. One test was inconclusive. Reporter this has a lot more to do with not only the 21 people on board who contracted the virus but others on board who may have been exposed and may get sick later. Remember, there are 2,400 passengers on the ship plus another 1,711 members of the crew. The people come from 43 different nations. Since there are now 197 countriacious quar
More to do with not only the 21 people on board who contracted the virus but others on board who may have been exposed and may get sick later. The total is 3,533 who came from a quarter of the planets nations. Weve been working through the day with Governor Newsom and his administration. We will bring the ship into a noncommercial port. All passengers and crew will be tested for the coronavirus. Those that need to be quarantined will be. Those that require additional medical attention will receive it. Reporter this afternoon, Contra Costa County reported on three new cases of the virus. The same ship is harbored off the shores of the pacific with a Different Group of passengers. The third person had contact with a known positive case from a neighboring county. All three are in home isolation and dont require hospitalization. Reporter meanwhile the passengers and crews continue to orbit off Northern California shores. Where the boat will dock this weekend is not clear. It wont be at the
There. Thats right city leaders have not said if covid19 arrives but when. There are two patients who have tested positive in sphrafnlts at this time the city is not offering details. Heres what we do know. One is a man in his 90s listed in serious condition and another in her 40s listed in fair condition. No word if the families are being quarantined. Health officials said they are following federal cdc guidelines and no idea on how they contracted the virus. We do not know at this point how they were exposed to the virus which suggests its spreading within the community. We anticipated that. Our further investigating the circumstance of these patients exposure. Reporter city leaders also tracking the progress of the grand princess. At last check about 100 nautical miles offshore caring 2,83 passengers onboard and a number of crew. Tests were flown out to the ship. 35 people reported having flu like symptoms and will be tested. No word if the ship will be coming into San Francisco and
Evolving topic and we encourage folks to text covid19 sf to 888777 and you will receive important updates about the covid19 situation. In addition, you can go to sfgov. Org for realtime information. Many of the people in this building are working around the clock and are updating that website on the hour. If you have questions, you need information, you want to share resources that we have, theres so much information there and i encourage those who can to go to that website. Finally for those that are unable to access the website, 311 operators are waiting, theyre ready to answer your call and answer questions and point you in the direction for resources that you may need. So thank you very much for being here today. Good morning. Im the director of health. I would like to thank mayor breed for her leadership in aggressively preparing for this epidemic, San Francisco is the vanguard of taking action early and continuously to respond to this rapidly resolving situation. I also want to t