Coronavirus Roundup: Deaths In Contra Costa, Santa Clara; National Guard Deployed; Toll Takers Pulled From Bay Area Bridges

The tsunami of news about the current coronavirus outbreak and now the shelter-in-place can be overwhelming. To help you navigate through what you need to know -- KPIX.com/KPIX 5 News/CBSN Bay Area -- will be publishing a news roundup each morning of the top coronavirus-related stories from the last 24 hours so you can start your day with the latest developments impacting you, your family and your daily life.

• Mar 21, 2020

Bay Area Health Workers Forced to Improvise as COVID-19 Treatment Needs Outstrip Protective Gear Supply

Bay Area healthcare workers say they desperately need more personal protective equipment as the coronavirus epidemic expands while medical supplies shrink.

• Mar 20, 2020

Castro Valley Gun Shop Owner Claims Store, Ordered Shut, Is 'Essential Business'

In a time of quarantines and stay-at-home orders, should a gun store be considered an "essential business?"

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus California Update: Gov. Newsom Deploys National Guard To Help With Food Distribution

The California National Guard has been deployed to a Sacramento warehouse to distribute food at food banks, according to the governor's office.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Separation Complicates Care For San Francisco's Homeless

Before the coronavirus changed the way people live in San Francisco and elsewhere, the City was already facing several crises. Homelessness and a drug epidemic were the big stories on city streets.

• Mar 20, 2020

Spread Of Coronavirus Leads Faith Congregations To Connect Online

Communities of faith shuttered by the emergency prohibition barring large public gatherings have been forced to get creative to connect with and minister to their congregations.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic: Famed Gilroy Garlic Festival Cancelled Over Fears Of The Coronavirus

The pungent smell of garlic, an annual Spring ritual in the Salinas Valley, will be missing this year as organizers of the famed Gilroy Garlic Festival announced Friday they were cancelling the 2020 event.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Update: Tech Non-Profit In Oakland Loans Devices To Students For Remote Learning

With the coronavirus forcing many California school districts to emphasize online learning, some students are facing a major challenge: they still don't have computers.

• Mar 20, 2020

San Francisco Releasing 26 Jail Inmates To Help Stem Coronavirus Spread

More than two dozen inmates are being released from San Francisco county jails as part of the coronavirus public health emergency, the San Francisco Sheriff's Office said Friday.

• Mar 20, 2020

John Muir Health Closing Some East Bay Urgent Care Centers

Facing a surge in patients, Walnut Creek's John Muir Health on Friday announced the closing of three urgent care centers in San Ramon, Orinda and Concord.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic: New York, Illinois Join California With Lockdown Orders; Officials Wrestle With Enforcement

As Illinois and New York state joined California on Friday in ordering all residents to stay in their homes to help stem the coronavirus spread, local leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area were wrestling over how to enforce the order.

• Mar 20, 2020

Oakland Police Dept. Employee Contracts Coronavirus

A member of the Oakland Police Department has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the department's first reported case.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Update: Oakland Launches Relief Fund For Vulnerable Residents, First Responders

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on Friday announced the launch of an emergency relief fund to serve the city's most vulnerable residents and first responders during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic: Santa Clara County Confirms 2 New Deaths

Health officials in Santa Clara County on Friday confirmed two new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the toll for the county to eight.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic: Google I/O Developers Conference Completely Canceled

Officials with Google announced on Friday that concerns over the coronavirus have led the company to cancel plans to hold the annual Google I/O developers conference "in any capacity."

• Mar 20, 2020

San Jose Police Chief Vows Enforcement Of Coronavirus Health Order On Non-Essential Businesses

San Jose police on Friday announced it will begin enforcing Santa Clara County's health department order on sheltering at home and shutdown of non-essential businesses to stop the coronavirus spread.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic: Newsom Orders Toll-Takers Pulled From Bay Area Bridges

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the temporary suspension of cash toll collection at the San Francisco Bay Area's seven state-owned bridges in order to minimize the risk of exposure to the coronavirus.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Update: Marin County Reports 10 New Cases

Ten additional COVID-19 coronavirus cases were reported in Marin County Thursday, boosting the number of cases to 25.

• Mar 20, 2020

BART Service To End At 9pm Daily Amid Coronavirus Sheltering, Plummeting Ridership

With a huge decline in the number passengers as a result of the coronavirus shelter at home orders, Bay Area Rapid Transit will be ending service at 9 p.m. daily beginning next week, the agency announced.

• Mar 20, 2020

San Francisco's Bay To Breakers Race Postponed To September Because Of Coronavirus Spread

San Francisco's renowned Bay to Breakers footrace, normally held on the third Sunday in May, will be pushed to the fall because of the escalating coronavirus outbreak, organizers announced Friday.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic: Contra Costa County Reports Its First Coronavirus Death

Contra Costa health officials announced Friday that a patient in their 70s being treated in a local hospital has died of complications from the coronavirus, the county's first death during the current virus outbreak.

• Mar 20, 2020

Federal Tax Deadline Moved To July 15 After California Pushes Back State Deadline Over Coronavirus

The federal income tax filing deadline has been pushed back from April 15 to July 15, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Friday.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Update: Express Lane Tolls On Highways 237, 580, 680 Suspended

Express lane tolls on Bay Area freeways are being suspended through at least April 7 due to a dramatic decline in traffic caused by the shelter-in-place order.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic May Have Ended Palo Alto 7th Grader's Dreams Of Winning Scripps Spelling Bee

Vayun Krishana dreamed that his return visit to the Scripps National Spelling Bee would end with him correctly spelling the winning word.

• Mar 20, 2020

Coronavirus Pandemic: 'Essential' San Francisco Pot Dispensaries See Surge In Home Deliveries

As San Francisco's confirmed coronavirus cases continue to mount, local marijuana dispensaries report a surge in home deliveries to residents during the current shelter-in-place.

• Mar 20, 2020

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