San Francisco Health Officials Launch Local Coronavirus Testing Program
With new cases diagnosed all across the Bay Area Monday, San Francisco health officials announced their public health lab has begun local testing for the coronavirus.
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With new cases diagnosed all across the Bay Area Monday, San Francisco health officials announced their public health lab has begun local testing for the coronavirus.
A Sonoma County resident, who recently returned from a cruise from San Francisco to Mexico, has been diagnosed with a presumptive case of the coronavirus, heath officials announced Monday.
San Mateo County health officials announced Monday their first case of coronavirus, raising the number of cases of COVID-19 in the Bay Area to a least 25.
Santa Clara County health officials reported two new cases of coronavirus Monday, bringing the number of coronavirus cases in the county to nine.
Public health departments across the Bay Area are warning that more cases of COVID-19 are expected, so now is the time to prepare for increased community spread.
Three new cases of coronavirus were confirmed by Santa Clara County public health officials on Sunday evening, bringing the total number of cases in the county to seven.
A second person has died from coronavirus in King County, Washington state health officials confirmed Sunday. Researchers said the virus may have been circulating for weeks undetected in the greater Seattle area.
Two health care workers at NorthBay VacaValley Hospital, who were exposed to a Solano County woman who was now being treated for the COVID-19 strain of the coronavirus at UC Davis Medical Center, have tested positive for the illness and have been ordered to undergone quarantine in their homes in Solano and Alameda counties.
A new interactive map from Johns Hopkins lets users track the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 in real-time.
A UC Davis student and two roommates were allowed to return to campus Saturday night after his test for the coronavirus came up negative, health officials said.
The Santa Clara County Public Health Department confirmed Saturday that a fourth case of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has been identified in Santa Clara County.
San Francisco city leaders on Friday urged residents and visitors to continue shopping at Chinese-owned business and to reject xenophobia associated with fears of the novel coronavirus.
A third case of the novel coronavirus reported in Santa Clara County has changed the way the county's Public Health Department is handling the spread of the virus. The county has enlisted and received state and federal help to curb further spread of the disease.
Across the San Francisco Bay Area from elementary schools to universities, administrators were scrambling to formulate strategies of how to handle the current coronavirus outbreak.
Health officials in California, Oregon and Washington state worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities after confirming three patients were infected by unknown means.
Doctors who are participating in the fight to control the spreading coronavirus may end up using special negative pressure rooms to help isolate the virus.
Possible exposure to a patient before her coronavirus was diagnosed at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento has forced the self quarantine of 124 health care workers including 36 nurses, an umbrella group of nurses unions nationwide announced Friday.
A new case of coronavirus in Santa Clara County, the county's third case, became the second instance in the U.S. of community transmission of the virus from an unknown origin.
Organizers of the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco scheduled to take place in March announced Friday that the conference would be postponed.
The coronavirus outbreak is affecting business around the world with the Port of Oakland here in the Bay Area just starting to feel the impact.
A leading Stanford infectious disease expert says the numbers coming out of China can be deceiving when it comes to the current coronavirus outbreak. "This is much Ado about something big," Dr. Stan Deresinski told KPIX 5 News.
A patient who has tested positive for the coronavirus has been transferred to San Mateo County, according to health officials.
While fears over the coronavirus outbreak have sent shares on Wall Street tumbling over the last week, they are also impacting sales of the popular Mexican beer -- Corona -- within the United States, according to a recent survey.
Health officials in Solano County are determining how to process those who have come into contact with a coronavirus patient who acquired the virus within the community, becoming the first in the U.S. to contract it from an unknown source.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday the state is monitoring about 8,400 people for the coronavirus, a day after a Solano County patient was identified as the first coronavirus case in the U.S. from unknown origin.
