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GULSTAN: GOVERNOR GAVIN NEWSOM HELD A NEWS CONFERANCE ON THE LATEST EFFORTS TO CONTAIN THE CORONAVIRUS. LISA: KCRA 3’S BRANDI CUMMINGS JOINS US LIVE WITH WHAT THE GOVERNOR SAID. BRANDI? REPORTER: HE TOUCHED ON SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS. HE ISSUED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER SO THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. THE TRANSFER OF INMATES FOR 30 DAYS. HE ORDERED PAROLE HEARINGS TO BE DONE BY VIDEOCONFERENCE. HE ANNOUNCED IT WAS A TEENAGER IN LANCASTER THAT DIED FROM CORONAVIRUS COMPLICATIONS. HE SAID EVERYONE SHOULD BE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY. HERE ARE THE NUMBERS. GOVERNOR NEWSOM SAID 50% OF ALL THE POSITIVE CASES ACROSS THE STATE ARE PEOPLE 18 TO 4 26% ARE INDIVIDUALS 50 TO 64 AND 23% OF POSITIVE CORONAVIRUS CASES ARE PEOPLE 65 AND OLDER. THAT’S WHY HE STRONGLY DISAGREES WITH THE SUGGESTON THAT CALIFORNIA SHOULD REOPEN NEXT MONTH. >> WE ARE TRYING TO BEND THE CURVE, BUT WE HAVE NOT BEEN IT. EARLY APRIL WOULD BE MISLEADING TO REPRESENT FOR CALIFORNIA THAT WILL BE THE CASE. I HAVE SAID THIS HONESTLY AND OBJECTIVELY BASED ON ALL THE EXPERTISE, AND THE EXPERTS WHO ARE HERE ASSEMBLED AND THOSE A CONTACT AND WORK WITH, THE NEXT SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS WILL BE PIVOTAL AND DETERMINATIVE IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS AND RESET EXPECTATIONS. EIGHT TO 12 WEEKS BECAUSE WE LOOK OVER THE COURSE OF THOSE WEEKS, AND I THINK WE CAN DO WHAT WE HAVE DONE. IF WE DO THAT, WE WILL BE HOPEFULLY IN A DIFFERENT PLACE THAN TODAY. APRIL FOR CALIFORNIA WOULD BE SOONER THAN ANY EXPERTS I HAVE TALKED TO BELIEVE IS POSSIBLE. REPORTER: GOVERNOR NEWSOM SAID TESTING HAS INCREASED IN THE STATE, BUT THE ISSUE IS GETTING THE TEST RESULTS BACK. THE GOVERNOR SAID IN SOME CASES IT’S TAKING DAYS TO GET RESULTS. AGAIN, THAT’S WHY HE WANTS EVERYONE TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSL AND HOPING SOCIAL DISTANCING AND THE STATEWIDE SHUTDOWN DOES HAVE AN IMPACT AND SLOW THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom said the next six to eight weeks will be pivotal in California to "bend the curve" amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.Newsom spoke Tuesday during a news conference in Sacramento. He said April or early-April would be too soon to lift the stay-at-home order.“We’re trying to bend that curve, but we haven’t bent it. And so the question is April or early-April, I think that would be misleading to represent, at least for California, that would be the case,” he said.Newsom reiterated that Californians need to take the order and the COVID-19 outbreak seriously. As of Tuesday, there were 2,102 positive coronavirus cases and 40 deaths.During the news conference, Newsom outlined statistics about coronavirus cases in the state. He said:50% of the positive cases were people 18 to 49 years old26% of the positive cases were people 50 to 64 years old23% of the positive cases were people are people 65 years old and older“I’ve said this very honestly and objectively based upon all the expertise and experts that are here assembled and those we contact and work with, that the next six to eight weeks will be pivotal and will be determinative in terms of being able to make adjustments and be able to sort of reset expectations,” Newsom said.Newsom said COVID-19 testing has increased in the state, but getting results takes more time, which is the issue. He said in some cases, it takes days to get test results back.Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump said during a Fox News town hall that he expects the country to return to normal by Easter."I give it two weeks," Trump said earlier in the town hall, suggesting he was ready to phase out his 15-day self-isolating guidelines when they expire. "I guess by Monday or Tuesday, it's about two weeks. We will assess at that time and give it more time if we need a little more time. We have to open this country up."Newsom said if the state continues to do what it is doing, then officials will be able to revisit the when to lift the stay-at-home order.“I said eight to 12 weeks because, soberly, we look out over the course of the next eight to 12 weeks, and I think we can continue to do what we’ve done. If we do that, hopefully, we then we will be in a very different place than we are today. But, I think April for California would be sooner than any of the experts that I talked to would believe is possible.”