The number of COVID-19 cases in Bexar County jumped double-digits again Wednesday, increasing to 554, and two more residents of a Southeast Side nursing home died of the virus.

The county’s death toll is now 20.

Half of those deaths — 10 — were residents of the Southeast Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where 67 residents and a dozen employees were infected.

A resident at a San Antonio senior living facility, Franklin Park TPC Parkway on the city’s North Side, has tested positive for COVID-19. That resident had recently traveled to California, Mayor Ron Nirenberg said at the daily coronavirus briefing with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff.

Seven other residents along with the facility’s employees tested negative for the virus, Nirenberg said.

The infection is not related to the Southeast Nursing outbreak, officials said.

“We don’t believe we have a localized outbreak at Franklin,” Nirenberg said. “We think it’s contained.”

The City Council is set to extend Nirenberg’s stay-at-home order to April 30 at its meeting Thursday. Wolff has already extended the county’s parallel order to the end of the month.

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The city has found more than 1,200 violations of he order, according to the most recent figures, but issued 24 citations.

Among those cited is Planet K, a chain known for selling smoking pipes, paraphernalia and adult novelties. After authorities visited various Planet K locations across the city 21 times, handing out warnings and citations, the city pulled the certificate of occupancy for the chain’s Austin Highway store, which allowed the disconnection of electric, gas and water there.

Planet K owner Michael Kleinman then reluctantly closed his shops but vowed to sue the city if it doesn’t decide that his business is essential.

Kleinman, 68, insisted that Planet K qualified as essential under Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent statewide order, in part because the stores sell “household necessities” such as “vitamin supplements, candy, drinks, soda and beer.”

In a recent interview, he added, “We sell smoking accessories. We sell sexual aids. You know people need the sexual aids now more than ever.”

But Nirenberg and Wolff pointed to the instance as what happens when residents and businesses flout the orders.

“This is a pandemic,” Nirenberg said. “We have to have zero tolerance for fools.”

Wolff concurred.

“I really doubt that sexual objects he’s got there or vaping is essential business,” Wolff said.

More than a third of Bexar County’s confirmed cases — 193 — stem from close contact with someone else who had the disease, according to new figures released Wednesday.

Roughly 28 percent of the area’s COVID-19 patients, or 155, contracted the disease through community transmission. About a quarter, 132, were travel-related cases.

Seventy-four are under investigation.

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Nirenberg said 84 of those confirmed with COVID-19 are in the hospital now. Another 48 who are in the hospital and have symptoms are waiting on test results. Fifty are in intensive care; 41 are on ventilators to help them breathe.

On the good news side, Nirenberg said 92 people have recovered from the disease.

Earlier Wednesday, officials at Kindred Hospital-San Antonio Central confirmed that three of its employees had tested positive for COVID-19

But Kyle Sinclair, the hospital's CEO, said Wednesday that none of the patients at the small hospital have tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, he said.

It’s unclear how the employees contracted the disease.

Kindred Hospital-San Antonio Central is a 44-bed transitional care facility in downtown San Antonio that treats people who are chronically- or critically-ill and require specialized care for extended periods of time. Sinclair said that his employees carefully followed federal government guidelines and wore proper protective equipment prior to the employees falling ill.

“We have had screening protocols in place since March 20 and temperature checks of all employees prior to and following each shift,” Sinclair said in an email.

Sinclair said he wasn’t able to provide more information about the employees who tested positive for COVID-19 because of privacy issues. The hospital has asked all employees who came in contact with the three to follow CDC guidelines and watch themselves closely for symptoms.

The city also confirmed a fourth San Antonio police officer has tested positive for COVID-19.

SAPD currently has 21 officers and 16 civilian employees under quarantine in addition to the four officers who have tested positive. The Bexar County Sheriff's Office also has four employees who have tested positive for COVID-19 — three detention deputies and one civilian employee.

Also, a second H-E-B employee has tested positive for the virus. The employee works at the H-E-B near the intersection of Grissom and Tezel roads and was last there Sunday. The company said the store has since been “deep cleaned and sanitized multiple times.”

The first employee to test positive works at the H-E-B Plus store near Bandera and Loop 1604.

In Comal County, officials confirmed a third COVID-19 death — a man in his 80s from Bulverde with underlying health conditions. The man died Tuesday in a San Antonio hospital.

The county has two more confirmed cases, bringing its total to 29.

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