Rather and it basically orders all californians to stay at home unless you have a necessary essential reason to lee the house that being maybe Grocery Shopping or exercising in the reason were doing this is to stop the spread because in a letter to President Trump the governor warned him saying he predicts. More than half of our state will be infected with the coronavirus within an 8 week period that if we do absolutely nothing and that would be 25 Million People so that is alarming and that is why this orr is going into place so what does this mean for people across our state. Well its nothing new to us in the bay area take a look at your screen. It means grocery stores, gas stations, banks, those will all remain open pharmacies will also remain open restaurants will be open for take out people are allowed to go outside for exercise children could play outside. But that still means you need to keep that 6 feet of distance the National Guard will assist with delivering medical and othe
Continue to do our partat kron 4 with social distancing here in the studio and of course heth officials want us all to do worldwide there are about 596,000 cases and more than 27,000 deaths. In the United States alone there was a surge of more than 21,000 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours. This came after the us became the country with the highest number of cases tonight. There are more than a 104,000 cases while 1700 people have died. In california. There are more than 4700 k a coronavirus cases and 94 people have died. The Us Navy Ship Mercy with is 100 hospital beds arrived in Southern California today and a somber warning from los angeles today as the city of angels prepares for what is expected to be a significant surge cases of covid 19our kate ronan has the latest on developments there. With 257 new confirmed cases in los angeles today and 5 new deaths la is readying for an even greater pected surge in the coming days, yesterdays would of course have a 50 doubling rate of les
And its going to be a big change for people it can be make you feel a little bit all to stop e coronavirus s from spreading across our state. In fact in a letter to President Trump the governor warned he predicts more than half of our state will be infected with the coronavirus within an 8 week period that if we do absolutely nothing we go about our regular life thats 25 Million People and to stop that from happening that is why the governor put the order in place. So what does this mean for people its nothing new for us in the bay area but lets take a look at our screen and refresh our memories means grocery stores, gas stationand banks will remain open pharmacies will remain open. Restaurants will be open for takeout only people are allowed to go outside for exercise children can play outside as long as they keep that 6 feet of distance, the National Guard will assist with delivering medical and other supplies and step instance volunteers are very limited now due o the fear of the co
And rosemary in just a moment, but first overnight the bay area saw a slight jump in coronavirus cases adding 136 more cases totaling now more than 1600. Santa clara county has seen the biggest rise in cases to 591 just yesterday the county announced five more deaths along with 17 new cases. And map here shows the breakdown county by county. Other areas seeing a double digit increase. Our San Francisco, alameda, and Contra Costa County could face a shortage of ventilators if the virus epidemic continues to grow. The state already had 4200 devices that helped seriously ill paces patients. More than 1000 of the ones on hand to not work. Bloom energy if one of about 350 Companies Offering the state help with medical equipment and supplies. The ceo says until this week the staff did not know how they work, but everyone is gearing up to refurbish those old ventilators. Manufacturing is in our dna, electrical, chemical, floor devices, we understand the mall. How difficult can it be . Company
Now at 5 as we approach the weekend then coronavirus cases continue to climb in the bay area and beyond city leaders are issuing a stern warning follow the stay at home order or you could face consequences. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 5 im justine waltman tonight there are 1600 confirmed cases of covid 19 here in the bay area and 35 people have died. Today Santa Clara County announced its 20th death from covid 19 and there have been 574 cases overall San Mateo County has 239 cases and 6 people have died, San Francisco county reports. 279 cases and 3 deaths. Contra costa county has 147 cases and one death. Alameda county 204 cases and 4 deaths. There have been 65 coronavirus cases in marine county solano has 34 sonoma cnty has 50 cases and one death and napa county has 8 cases and as the number of cases continues to go up San Francisco is now taking steps to slow the spread of the virus with the weekend now arriving. Policchief bill s