Confirmed that two people had traveled on the grand princess cruise ship that was held in the port of oakland earlier this month have also died from complications from the coronavirus. As for testing, Governor Newsom said today the 66,800 tests have been performed. The results for those tens of thousands tests are being delayed due to a shortage of necessary chemicals to process them as well as materials such as swabs and files. Your in the bay area, more lives are being lost. San mateo county reported upon the death, bringing the total up to five. Three of the people who died are older adults. The fourth person was described only as an adult. In a statement, the county help officer said he believed the virus is growing adequate exponential rate. Santa clara county continues to have the highest number of deaths with 17. That is an increase of one compared to yesterday but Alameda County now has two death. San francisco, sonoma, and carter countys each have one death from the virus. Health officials in School Superintendent from six bay area counties announced today that School Closures will extend through may 1. Missing education will continue through flexible learning, and some distant, including San Francisco, will provide free grab and go meals to all children 18 and younger while schools are closed. Todays announcement alameda, contra costa, marin, San Francisco, san mateo, and county santa clara county. Track the situation with hospitals today Hospital Leaders in San Francisco talked about their plans for the coming wave of coronavirus patients. They talked about adding more staff, hospital beds, and even a new floor to care for the surge in the number of patients. Christien kafton joins us now. The details are aggressive early efforts. Reporter remember, the early efforts meant that San Francisco was the first city to issue the state home order. Today the mayor said the order seems to be working and keeping cases manageable. They are still inspecting a surge. While covid19 continues to spread in San Francisco, the strategy of being the first to issue a stay at home order and at throwing the spread of coronavirus seems to be working. We know that the early steps we took to not only be prepared but also to ask people to stay at home have definitely had an impact on the numbers we are seeing every single day. Reporter as of wednesday, the number of cases things that 178. We expect these numbers to continue to rise rapidly. Sadly, we have now reported our first death from this disease on behalf of the department of Public Health, i extend my condolences to this mans loved ones. I am sorry to say that the worst is yet to come. Reporter the city is estimating it will be 5000 hospital beds and 1500 ventilators to handle what is now an all but certain coming surge in covid19 patients. San francisco hospitals are working together in an unprecedented fashion, including working together to open a new floor at Saint Francis hospital dedicated solely to caring for as many as 48 coronavirus patients. The department of Public Health is also working to quarantine and isolate patients and staff at laguna honda after a fifth worker at the hospital has tested positive for coronavirus. The chief says two Police Employees have tested positive at the hall of justice. The San FranciscoPolice Department had two of our employees to test positive for covid19. We have quarantined 24 officers. 27 total employees. 25 sworn and two unsworn. We have sanitized work locations. Reporter the city health says it is taking strides in rapid test. At this point time, they can perform about 400 of those per day. The city is stressing they need to continue with the state order. It seems to be working. They need to make sure they keep the patient load manageable. Live in San Francisco, christien kafton, ktvu fox 2 news. As you reported, the city is saying they need 5000 beds and 1500 ventilators. To we know how many beds and ventilators they currently have . Reporter at this point, the city is working to get as many of those beds as possible. I believe they have 1300. They are working to get more every day and try to build that number up so they can get ready for the surge. The number that they have right now is capable of handling the amount of patients we are seeing. Keep in mind, frank, but they are always trying to do is work ahead of where we are right now. We learned that from the unfortunate circumstance in italy. You need to plan for what is to come, not the situation on the ground at this time. Christien kafton in the city for us. Thank you. The Coronavirus Task force held a briefing today to give an update on the update. The president says critical supplies are heading to the state where they are needed most. Fema has delivered or is in the process of shipping 9. 5 million respirators and 20 million surgical masks. The whole world, its not just us. Not just the states. The whole world is trying to get these things. Competition with many, many countries. I believe today you broke the 150 mark for the virus. We have 150 countries, over 150 countries with this virus. Somalia in the Southeast Asian nation is the most recent. That are now or nearly 467,000 cases around the world and 21,162 deaths. Nationwide, the number of cases reached another milestone today, topping 65,000. 921 people have died according to figures from john hopkins university. New york has already seen more than 30,000 cases of coronavirus, and Washington State is closing in at 2500. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said today that the States Social distancing directives that were implemented this past weekend appeared to be working. The governor said preliminary numbers show hospitalization rates have gone down over the last few days. It spreads very quickly, but if you reduce the density, you can reduce the spread very quickly. Right now, there are more than 30,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in new york state, the highest anywhere in the united states. More than 200 people have died from coronavirus in new york. As bad as it is, experts say new york isnt expected to reach their peak for at least another two more weeks. Schools are once again on who. Six bay area counties said students wont return until at least early may. Tom vacar joins us live from his home as we practice social distancing. Why did the counties and School Leaders make this decision . Reporter it was based really on what i would call wishful thinking. Rooted in the knee that you have to be able to make plans in order to control one sort of data or another. Most bay area students, if not officially all bay area students, will have to wait weeks in order to get back into the classrooms if they are that lucky. Six county offices of education, including alameda, contra costa, marin, San Francisco, san mateo, and santa clara as well as the county Health Officer in berkeley have announced that classes will not recommence at least until may 1 , with monday, may 4 being the earliest practical opening date. The decision was about continuing to flatten the curve on covid19 and also the District Needs to have a uniform opening date where they can all plan a set expectations with the families and their communities. It is a closure date through may 1 at this point. If there needs to be more, if a closure date needs to be extended, we will all be prepared to communicate that further down the line. Reporter there in mind, just last week, the governor warned that the loss of the balance of the entire school year with highly possible. That was double underscored today as the governor talked about viral spread among School Aged Children as well as their teachers, staff, and administrators who serve them. 37 people under the age of 17 in the state of california are part of those that have been tested positive in the state of california. Three dozen young folks have been tested positive. 51 as of today, over half, 18 49 years old. Over half of you 1849 have tested positive. The stayathome orders are real, and we want to maintain our vigilance. Reporter that vigilance and the continuing growth of the viral spread will be the final determinant. Now in that the time is extended a little bit gives them a little bit more runway to make some longterm plans. I think everyone is prepared to deal with whatever comes whenever it comes. Reporter those schools will still have a multitude of tests ahead, including everything from Online Learning to School Feeding programs, from planning for the next school year, to simple maintenance of the facilities they have right now. It is quite a task. Tom vacar, ktvu fox 2 news. Thank you. The senate is still trying to work out final details after coming to an agreement late last night on the nearly 2 trillion economic stimulus package to help families, workers, and the Health Care System all impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Senators are expected to vote on the bill sometime tonight after some final adjustments are made. The bill would give 1200 checks for most American Adults and 500 checks for most children. It would also create a 500 billion Lending Program for businesses, cities, and states, and they 360 billion Employee Retention fund for Small Businesses. Coming up, new ways to help people. How one east bay restaurant has turned its bar and restaurant into a soup kitchen for the public. Plus the number of First Responders testing positive for coronavirus continues to grow. Still to come, the biggest frustration from the head of the local Police Officers here. We know that many of you have questions. We have been receiving them every day. Coming up, we will take some of those questions directly to a doctor. My money should work as hard as i do. So i use my freedom unlimited card to buy all the latest tech stuff. Today, im earning on a charger. So, just the charger then . Ummm. Yeah sarcastically fantastic. Earn 1. 5 cash back on everything you buy with freedom unlimited. Chase. Make more of whats yours. From anyone else. So why accept it from your allergy pills . Flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills dont. Get allinone allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. We find a way through it. Its about taking care of each other. 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What i want to send out there for our viewers as a messages, please dont use these medications if you have found a way of getting them just as a treatment for yourself or in case you think you have coronavirus or you are positive, please dont use it without proper guidance. There are various series side effect. You cannot be using it without your position saying you should be doing it. Lets go to our viewer questions. After hearing the president talk about opening the economy back up within weeks, they asks, is there a timeline for california or even the north bay to resume our lives as previous, or do we know if california is looking to continue our quarantine throughout april . Let me answer that question in a different way. I want to make sure that we all understand how we act today is going to determine what our future holds for us. If we all obey what we are being asked to, to stay home, limit all social interaction, and only go out we need to, if we do that, if all of us do that together, then maybe we can loosen the mandate a little bit in the next coming weeks, maybe months. But all of that is going to be dependent on how we act now. If we are able to lunch the curve, maybe things will be a little better in the next few weeks or months. If we dont and we think, im okay, im healthy, i can do whatever i need to do, things can get pretty bad here. We might be following in the footsteps of new york. Another person wrote us and said, i am wondering if there is a test or if there will be a test to see whether someone has already had the coronavirus and is immune to it . If there are people who show little to no symptoms, there might be a lot of people who had the coronavirus without realizing it that are already immune. The person says it seems to me that knowledge of how many people are already immune would be useful in knowing whether we are anywhere close to having immunity to this illness. The short answer is no, we do not have a test to see people are immune to coronavirus. However, this is a very fluid situation. Right now, from what we are understanding, your degree of immunity in the future to the coronavirus is perhaps linked to how serious of a virus, of an infection you got this time around. If you had a very serious infection this time around, you make have the ability to have an immune response next time. If you do get infected neck year, you will not have a series a reaction. Maybe you will have less of a reaction to coronavirus. We just dont have the answers to all of those questions right now. We believe it there. Thank you for talking is to tonight. Thank you. Please keep sending us your questions. We have a team that is working to answer them. You can email us at newstips foxtv. Com. You can also see answers that have already been answered on our website, ktvu. Com. The situation with coronavirus changing by the day. We want to remind you that you can stay uptodate at all times by downloading our ktvu news app. It is free to more Law Enforcement officers in the bay area are testing positive for the coronavirus. Henry lee explains now, please send deputies say they are committed to protecting the public while ensuring their own health. Reporter the coronavirus is gaining in Law Enforcement. In the bay area, the virus has infected the ranks of at least eight agencies. On wednesday, the San FranciscoSheriffs Office said four deputies and a cadet tested positive for covid19. Deputies work at the jail at the hall of justice. At the San FranciscoPolice Department, a sergeant that works at this a special victims unit is also infected. Any others may have been exposed. They might be a systematic right now. That does not mean you do not have the fires. Reporter those with covid 19 include five santa clara sheriffs deputies, three Police Officers, reserve San Jose Police officer, santa clara officer, and of alejo officer. Deputies are frustrated because there is no standard playbook for testing for Law Enforcement. It all depends on the jurisdiction. I do feel that each county, each agency is left on their own to figure it out. Now more than ever, we need to come together. Reporter tony as president of the San FranciscoPolice Officers association. He says his priority is to make sure his officers know whether they have covid19. Our biggest frustration is trying to get our members tested in a timely manner. Reporter as test are underway, some agencies are are minimizing contact with the public. The santa clara Sheriffs Office says is being less selective on minor issues. Even with the risk posed to Law Enforcement, the Sheriffs Association is against extra hazard pay. John wells tell me we dont get into this were to try to make more money. We get into the work to serve our community. Police say they cant shelter in place or telecommute. They say they want to help people but they deserve proper testing and protection. Henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. We have cold weather to talk about. Still scattered showers out there right now. Tomorrow morning, apostate barbary. Temperatures will get below freezing with prospect there are still scattered showers out there right now. Forecast overnight lows pretty chilly. Rain for tomorrow, zero or maybe a sprinkle. For the most part, mostly sunny and nice. Lingering showers out there right now. If i come in closer and see what we are looking at, especially around san jose, a few scattered showers around morgan hill, santa cruz mountains, gilroy, those areas. This whole area, i will put a loop on it. You can see it is moving off toward the east. It is winding down. As the day gets lower, it will slow down. You can get thundershower. It is that time of year. It is that kind of day when you could easily get a funnel cloud. There is wind out there. The water is ripp