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The virus. The governor says the cdc is sending california substantially more testing kits. 10 cdc workers are on their way here to california as date officials will open more testing sites for the coronavirus. The governor laid out new numbers. Right now, there are 28 confirmed cases of coronavirus here in the state. 8400 people that recently traveled to china are being monitored. There is also the mystery case, the first of the country, of a person contracting the virus from an unknown source. The person is from Solano County, and is being treated at uc davis medical center. We have team coverage. Rob roth is learning more about the woman. We are looking for efforts you may have had contacts with her. Reporter we start with tom, live from uc davis with more on the announcement today from governor newsom. Reporter if the mystery will be solved, it will be solved right here at uc medical center. Because of the unusual nature of the ....
The reason was, the person and not travel to any of the regions hit by the outbreak, or come in contact with anyone known to be infected. Epidemiologists say they did expect transmission through community what happen eventually. It does not come as a particular surprise to epidemiologists that study viral, respiratory infections. All of us assumed this would happen eventually. The question is, how extensive is the circulation of the virus . Reporter dozens of hospital workers that came in contact with the patient are being monitored. The hospital issued a statement saying, we launched a meticulous tracing of anyone in the vacaville hospital that had any contact with that patient. Those that met the moderate or high risk category are asked to stay home and monitor themselves for any sign of covid19. The schools in the Fairfield Unified School District are taking precautions. The district has ordered all commonly ....
Shining brightly under clear skies. Temperatures are in the 40s and the 50s. Local to start off the day. Upper 40s in concord. San jose, right now. As we head through our afternoon, we are going to warm up. Many locations back up into the 70s this afternoon. Low 70s in San Francisco. Mid70s oakland, fremont. Upper 70s in san jose. We will talk about our next weather system and if we could see a few showers coming up. Lets check in with michelle for a look at your morning commute. All right, mary, we are still tracking this incident in San Francisco. A wrongway driver going northbound on southbound 280. So all lanes are blocked in that area to get that wrongway driver off the road. This is near mariposas. All lanes were blocked. And alternative for you is 101. So we are going to keep on top of that and incident, looking at the A ....
Of this crash. This is on eastbound 80 near seventh street. One lane is blocked in that area. So speeds the began to 31 Miles Per Hour. We want to take you through the altamont pass. Theres a crash there. Near grant line would. It has been moved over to the shoulder and usually seeing slow speed in the altamont pass. But this is slowing down speeds even further. Taking a look at the bay bridge toll plaza right now, where it is backed up. Metering lights are on. 6 01. As we take a live look from the Uc Davis Medical Center in sacramento. That is where a new case of the coronavirus is being treated this morning. Health officials confirmed it is the countrys first transmission of the virus among the general public. We have also learned that the patient lives in solano county. Kpix 5s jackie ward is here this morning to expand how this may have happened. Reporter it is a ....