One person, a man in his 50s, has died in Tulsa County. He is among three deaths statewide.

Dr. Bruce Dart, the director of the Tulsa Health Department, urged residents to stay home as much as possible.

“Do not make trips that aren’t essential,” Dart said. “This advice may be easier for some people so it’s important to be a neighbor and call or text your friends and family members to check in on them.“

Under the new circumstances affecting daily life, Bynum expressed deep appreciation for the cooperation of business owners and residents.

“Sometimes it can almost seem like we’re all living in a science fiction novel,” he said. “The kind of decisions that all of us are being asked to make right now are decisions that none of us expected to make in our lifetimes, or at least not me.”

And there are a lot of people who don’t get to make those decisions; like police officers, firefighters, sheriff’s deputies, EMSA personnel and health care, senior care and day care workers, Bynum said.