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Gov. Newsom declares state of emergency due to coronavirus First California coronavirus death confirmed in Placer County Share Shares Copy Link Copy

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thank you so much for joining us. We want to give you guys an update on we are relates to covert 19 grown A virus. Wanted to answer any questions you may have given update on the numbers on Reflect the news on the which obviously marks a profound moment in our state and, more importantly, profound moment for the family members that lost a loved one. And our hearts go out to that individual is, you know, just Reese. Leading last few hours was confirmed in Plaster County. That individual passed away. A number of cases in the state of California is 53 I want to just reinforce that it's 50. Seen a lot been a lot of media reports about the number of people that have tested positive in the state of California. That number, as of today is 53. I'll remind you that includes 24 individuals that were repatriated in the state of California. 29 individuals that have subsequently been tested positive is, you know, we moved into the face of repatriation going back early part of January. More formally at the end of January is the first phase of our engagement as it relates to the novel Corona virus. The second phase of that was monitoring people that had come through both San Francisco International Airport as well as L a X. That number at the time, you may recall, was 8400. Now we estimate that number to be closer to 9400 people that were much modern terrain in over 49. Infect directly 49 counties in the state of California. So first phase of our engagement in the Corona virus repatriation. Second phase The monitoring people that came in on commercial flights through those two international airports on those are currently being monitored again by 49 jurisdictions in the state of California. That number now totals 9400 3rd phase was last week or so. First community spread case in the state of California here in Northern California and, as you know, community spread eyes. No lock the northern part of this. We've had a number of incidences throughout the state of California no longer north now in Southern California, we have accordingly. With this new I see a patient that passed away entered into this next face that is required me uh, under stances to advance a proclamation of a state of emergency and the state of California. This is not something that I say hyperbolically and shouldn't be as such would be incredibly misleading. The proclamation is to serve to help advance our resource is to loosen up our regulatory environment to provide some clarity in terms of jurisdiction and oversight. Capacity is relates to the access and utilization of state properties, fairgrounds or other state properties and allow us to preempt local land use. If indeed we feel that is appropriate. Allows us on the competitive bidding frame to move forward with our kind of procurement that's necessary with sense of urgency on medical supplies or other monitoring or suppression efforts that would allow us to move forward without any hurdles.