Photos: Day 30 of the Bay Area coronavirus shelter-in-place order
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Our staff photojournalists witnessed both joy and despair around the Bay Area on day 30 of the coronavirus shelter-in-place order.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a press conference Wednesday that he’d like to see California double the number of tests for COVID-19 that it are conducted each day by the end of April. He’d also like continue a massive expansion of testing through the summer as the state moves toward reopening public life.
San Francisco passed 1,000 confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday, reporting 26 new positive tests for a total of 1,013, as well as two deaths, bringing its total to 17.
Alameda County officials announced 13 new deaths from COVID-19 over a two-day span, for a total of 36, while its number of confirmed cases rose to 962. Santa Clara County saw five new coronavirus deaths and 127 confirmed cases over two days, for a total of 1,793 confirmed cases and 65 deaths. Both counties had problems with their health databases that kept them from releasing figures Tuesday.
Contra Costa County reported 15 confirmed coronavirus cases and two new deaths Wednesday, while San Mateo County officials announced 26 new cases but no deaths.
Meanwhile nursing homes continue to be hard it. The Alameda County District Attorney’s office has opened an investigation into a Hayward nursing home where an increasing number of patients — 13 as of Wednesday — have died from coronavirus. At the Gateway Rehabilitation and Care Center, 67 people — 41 patients and 26 staff — have contracted the virus so far.