Bay Area coronavirus updates: All bars and nightclubs must close in California

California Governor Gavin Newsom has directed bars and nightclubs to close in California as of March 15, 2020. California Governor Gavin Newsom has directed bars and nightclubs to close in California as of March 15, 2020. Photo: Randall Benton, Associated Press Photo: Randall Benton, Associated Press Image 1 of / 52 Caption Close Bay Area coronavirus updates: All bars and nightclubs must close in California 1 / 52 Back to Gallery

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LATEST, March 15, 9:15 p.m. Sonoma County now has five cases of coronavirus. A second case of community spread was reported on Sunday.

March 15, 5:56 p.m. Officials have announced the Grand Princess cruise ship will be temporarily moved to the San Francisco Bay, departing the Port of Oakland at approximately 7 p.m. on Sunday night. It will anchor there for two weeks, Gov. Gavin Newsom said, with about 340 crew aboard as well as six passengers from abroad. Additional crew will depart on chartered flights from a non-commercial area of SFO.

March 15, 2:15 p.m. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced all "bars, nightclubs, wineries, brewpubs and the like" must close temporarily due to the threat of coronavirus.

"We are directing that all bars, nightclubs, wineries, brewpubs and the like be closed in the state of California," Newsom announced Sunday afternoon, calling them "nonessential" businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.

"We have absolute expectation this will be socialized in real-time today," he said.

The directive does not apply to restaurants, which are still considered essential, as Newsom said some individuals cannot safely prepare food in their homes. "We don't believe this is necessary at this moment," he said.

However, all restaurants will be required to halve their occupancy in order to achieve appropriate social distancing.

In addition, Newsom asked the state's 5.3 million residents who are 65 or older to self-isolate at home. Seniors and those with chronic illnesses are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19.

"We recognize that social isolation for millions of Californians is anxiety inducing ... but we need to meet this moment head-on," he said.

Newsom said 335 cases of coronavirus have been identified in California, a 14-percent increase from Saturday.

March 15, 12:30 p.m. San Mateo County reported its first death in a patient with COVID-19. No further details about the patient were immediately available.

San Mateo County public health officials reported 12 new cases of coronavirus this weekend, bringing the total of infected patients to 32.

The county's health department has banned gatherings of more than 50 people for three weeks starting on Sunday. The order also advises against get-togethers of more than 10 people. This is a change to the Thursday declaration that barred gatherings larger than 250 people.

March 15, 10:30 a.m. Santa Clara County public health officials reported 23 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday morning. This brings the total number of cases in the county to 114.

"We expect numbers to grow and urge everyone to follow Public Health recommendations," the county said in a statement.

March 15, 8:15 a.m. The San Francisco Unified School District said Sunday seven students at Glen Park Elementary School who reported respiratory illness tested negative for COVID-19. Read the full story.

March 15, 5:50 a.m. Two health care workers at UCSF tested positive for coronavirus, a hospital spokesperson confirmed to The Chronicle.

Both workers are quarantined and the hospital is contacting any patients, doctors, nurses or staff who may have come into contact with them.

March 14, 10:45 p.m. Sonoma County health officials announced the first coronavirus case contracted through community spread on Saturday night.

The latest case involves an adult resident and is the fourth case of COVID-19 in the county. A person who came into contact with the adult patient has also been tested, but results are not yet available.

March 14, 9:35 p.m. An Alaska Airlines agent who worked at San Francisco International Airport tested positive for COVID-19.

The employee, who left work sick on Tuesday, March 10, tested positive for coronavirus on Friday, March 13.

All Alaska Airlines employees who possibly came in contact with the patient were told to self-isolate. The airline said it doesn't believe that any customers were put at-risk.

March 14, 6:18 p.m. A graduate student of UC Berkeley has tested positive for COVID-19, the university announced in a statement on Saturday.

The person neither lives on campus nor in the city of Berkeley, the statement added. The patient is in self-quarantine in an unspecified city, and was described as being in "good condition" with no "serious symptoms."

March 14, 4:18 p.m. Marin County confirmed two more cases of novel coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the county's total to five.

The latest patients confirmed to have COVID-19 had no known contact with previous cases, according to the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services, making them the first cases in the county to be the result of community spread.

March 14, 12:45 p.m. Contra Costa County announced four new cases of coronavirus Saturday as well as the fact that it is issuing a ban on gatherings of 100 people or more. The ban will last from Sunday, March 15 through Tuesday, March 31. The full order can be seen here.

There are now 29 cases in the county.

March 14, 11:15 a.m. Five new cases of coronavirus have been reported in San Francisco, bringing the city's total to 28.

March 14, 11:00 a.m. Public health officials in Santa Clara County announced 17 new known COVID-19 cases on Saturday, bringing the county's total up to 91.

No details were released on the 17 individuals, but the county "expects numbers to grow" in the coming days.

March 14, 9:30 a.m. An undergraduate student at Stanford University has tested positive for coronavirus, the university announced in a statement Friday night.

Stanford had previously instructed as many students as possible to leave campus by March 18, and stated the university would "only be able to provide on-campus undergraduate housing and dining for a very limited number of students – those who have no other option than to be here."

The student who tested positive is self-isolating and teams are working to identify contacts.

March 14, 7:30 a.m. Three more firefighters in the San Francisco Bay Area have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The City of San Jose announced that two more firefighters in the city have tested positive, bringing the number of infected SJFD members up to eight.

Additionally, officials in Alameda announced that one of the city's firefighters have tested positive, and eight others who may have been exposed are in quarantine.

March 13, 6:20 p.m. The San Francisco Department of Public Health website stated Friday the county has 23 cases. This is up from 19 on Thursday.

March 13, 6 p.m. Santa Clara County reported its second coronavirus-related death Friday evening. The person who passed away was a woman in her 80s, officials said. She was hospitalized on March 9.

"The Public Health Department is saddened to share this news and expresses its condolences to her family," Santa Clara County Public Health said in a statement.

The first death in the county was reported March 9. The patient had been hospitalized at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View for several weeks, officials said.

Santa Clara County has the most confirmed cases in the Bay Area with 79 infected patients. Of these, 36 are hospitalized.

March 13, 3 p.m. Alameda County now has four more confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to KCBS. The new cases bring the county's total to 7.

Two of the cases are the county's first instances of community spread, Doug Sovern reported.

Edit: This update originally read 11 total cases. The correct number of confirmed cases in Alameda County is currently 7.

March 13, 1:30 p.m. The California Department of Public Health announced the fifth death in California related to COVID-19. The agency did not disclose where in the state the death occurred.

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state of California is now 247, though that does not include those aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship who tested positive, CDPH noted.

March 13, 12 p.m. Santa Clara County now has 79 cases of coronavirus with seven infected patients hospitalized.

Of the total cases, 43 are a result of community transmission, meaning the individual doesn't have a travel history to an area with an outbreak or known contact with an infected patient.

"We expect many, many more cases to come," said Dr. Sara Cody, the county's health officer.

Cody signed an order banning events with more than 100 people.

The county has the most coronavirus cases in the Bay Area and has a population of 1.9 million people.

Beginning Monday, schools in the county will be closing for three weeks.

March 13, 11 a.m. Six members of the San Jose Fire Department have tested positive for COVID-19, the City of San Jose said in a statement Friday.

An investigation is underway on the 70 firefighters who may have been exposed. These individuals have all been contacted and are in quarantine.

"The fire department has been able to successfully backfill all temporarily vacant positions and we expect to maintain normal resource levels indefinitely," city officials said.

Fire Stations 9 and 31 and the Fire Training Center are undergoing a deep cleaning. If an individual was not contacted, then there is no risk of having been exposed by a SJFD firefighter.

Additionally, a San Jose Mineta International Airport TSA worker tested positive for COVID-19, according to the city of San Jose. The employee reportedly last worked on March 7. He had been stationed at the security identification display doors.

March 13, 10:30 a.m. Contra Costa County health officials reported Friday morning that 25 people in the county are now infected with COVID-19.

This is an increase of eight cases as yesterday the county was reporting 17 infected individuals.

"We expect this number to grow in the days and weeks ahead," the county said on Twitter.

The county didn't release information on how the new patients contracted the virus.

Where cases have been confirmed in the Bay Area:





ALAMEDA COUNTY: 15 confirmed cases

Fore more information on Alameda County cases, visit the public health department website.

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY: 29 confirmed cases

Fore more information on Contra Costa County cases, visit the public health department website.

MARIN COUNTY: 5 confirmed cases

Fore more information on Marin County cases, visit the public health department website.

NAPA COUNTY: 0 residents, 2 patients treated in Napa, then transferred out of county

For more information on Napa County cases, visit the public health department website.

SAN MATEO COUNTY: 32 confirmed cases

For more information on San Mateo County cases, visit the public health department website.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY: 114 confirmed cases

Fore more information on Santa Clara County cases, visit the public health department website.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY: 28 confirmed cases

For more information on San Francisco County cases, visit the public health department website.

SOLANO COUNTY: 6 confirmed cases

For more information on Solano County cases, visit the public health department website.

SONOMA COUNTY: 5 confirmed cases

For more information on Sonoma County cases, visit the public health department website.

In California, 7 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported:





The first death occurred in Placer County on March 4. The Placer County Health Department said the deceased is an elderly resident of the county with underlying health conditions. The patient tested presumptively positive on Tuesday, March 3 at a California lab and was likely exposed on a Princess cruise ship that traveled from San Francisco to Mexico, Feb. 11 to 21, health officials said. The patient was under treatment in isolation at Kaiser Permanente Roseville.

The second California death, the first in the Bay Area, was reported in Santa Clara County in March 9. A woman in her 60s passed away at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View Monday, the first death tied to the novel coronavirus in the Bay Area. The woman was hospitalized for several weeks, Santa Clara County health officials said.

Sacramento County announced on March 10 that a woman in her 90s in an assisted-living facility died from corornavirus. This was the first death in the county and the third in California. Health officials said the patient had an underlying health condition and "died of complications" related to the pneumonia-like virus.

Los Angeles County announced the fourth death on March 11: a woman who had traveled extensively (including a layover in South Korea) and who was visiting Los Angeles from out of town.

A fifth death was reported on March 13, though officials did not disclose where it occurred.

Santa Clara County reported its second coronavirus-related death and sixth in the state on March 13. The patient who passed away was an adult woman in her 80s, officials said.

San Mateo County reported its first coronavirus death on March 15. The age of the individual has not been released.

The death of a 72-year-old man from Sunnyvale was previously thought to be linked to COVID-19, but test results confirmed the man did not have the virus.

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Amy Graff and Alyssa Pereira are digital editors with SFGATE. Email them: agraff@sfgate.com and apereira@sfgate.com.