tonight March 19 2020 at 11:59 p.m. or
one minute before midnight the
Sacramento County Health Officer dr.
Libya Kasuri is directing all
individuals living in the county to stay
at their place of residence except for
essential activities and thanks for
joining us you're watching the EBEs 10
News at 5:00 I'm Addison Wade and I'm
Chris Thomas a lot to cover today we're
working to get you the facts not fear
about the corona virus pandemic first
you just heard it
Sacramento County health officials
giving the order for Sacramento
residents to stay at home or Monica
Coleman joins us live tonight with more
on what this actually means Monica Chris
it can be confusing because a stay at
home order and a shelter in place are
relative the same thing meaning stay at
home but that doesn't mean that you're
confined to the four walls of your home
we can still do what county officials
are calling the essential activities for
example you can go outside and ride your
bike go hiking pick up medicine from
your doctor go grocery shopping handle
your needs at the bank
you can even have friends over if there
is no more than six non-relatives the
purpose of this stay at home order is
not to stop residents from living their
daily lives but to stop the spread of
the virus doesn't mean that you're
jailed at home doesn't mean that you're
necessarily quarantine you certainly can
get out and about and and walk your dog
and enjoy some some outdoor exercise but
it does mean that it is a new step
towards making sure that the
transmission is slowed
this orders not want to be taken lightly
breweries wineries and also gyms are
still off-limits at this time we don't
want to have anybody arrested during
this crisis we don't want to prosecute
anybody for violating an order we are
standing here today to talk about the
importance of everyone adhering to the
law in short Chris what this order means
for the people of Sacramento is to be
responsible stay at home unless you
absolutely must come outside and to
continue to practice social distancing
our Monica Coleman live for us tonight
Monica thank you keep in mind other
counties in the area have already issued
either shelter in place orders or
directives those counties include Yolo
Yuba Sutter and Solano and late today
Placer County joined as well it's a
problem across the u.s. several counties
are now testing tens of thousands of
people a day as the US continues to lag
behind ABC tens Andy Judson set out to
get a better picture of testing
availability here in Northern California
a lot of you have been asking if you can
get a test where can you get a test and
why is it so difficult to get a test we
brought all your questions to public
health officials Sacramento County has
over 1.5 million people in it but the
Public Health Department has only 50
koba 19 tests available them I am work
about the quantity as the corona virus
spreads causing officials to issue a
stay at home order Thursday testing
continues to be extremely limited right
now we know but why many nationwide
including Sacramento County officials
are pointing the blame at the CDC it's
limited and by way of the fact that CDC
was the initial you know responsible
party to see that we get testing
infrastructure at the local level and so
we're continuing to wait on that and
it's very frustrating in Sacramento
County there's two places to get tested
for the corona virus one is the Health
Department lab that's where they're
prioritizing the medical professionals
as well as the elderly the other testing
location is at private labs like quest
or lab core but testing is limited and
you need a doctor's note
officials hope to work with private labs
like these to help get more testing
available Yuba and Sutter County are
currently doing drive-through testing
it's something Sacramento County hopes
to start with in the next week very
difficult to begin the process of
treating patients and limiting the
spread of kovat 19 when you're not armed
with that initial information of knowing
kind of in the population who currently
has it but with limited testing comes
limited knowledge of who actually has
Kovan 19 and if they're contaminating
others it's a numbers game
it's trying to figure out where the
virus is and track it so it's more like
a tracking mechanism anything with so
few tests available in our area public
health officials believe the number of
those with corona virus is far beyond
just the 45 confirmed cases absolutely
more than 45 can guarantee there's more
than 45 cases there probably 10 or 20 or
maybe a hundred times that's why doctors
and officials are urging people to stay
home rather than expose others to Coba
19 by trying to get a test it's not just
about the test this is about exposure
and you don't want to expose other
people to this condition because it is
more deadly than the flu the best thing
is to stay at home and isolate now you
want to give you the latest numbers now
from the California Department of Public
Health there are now a total of 675
positive cases and 16 deaths in the
state nearly 12,000 people are
self-monitoring after getting back from
traveling out of the country here are
the latest numbers at in Northern
California in Sacramento County 45
confirmed cases and three deaths in San
Joaquin County 17 cases and two deaths
nine are sick in Placer County with one
death there are eight confirmed cases in
Solano County five in Stanislaus and
Yolo each and one confirmed case in
Nevada County cases of the corona virus
are climbing across the country just
take a look at these numbers three weeks
ago there were only 60 cases in the u.s.
two weeks ago that number doubled to 159
more than doubled one week ago it
climbed more than 1200 and this week
there are nearly 9000 confirmed cases in
the country officials point out the
dramatic in
increase in numbers is due to part to
increase testing governor Newsom expects
more than half of all Californians to
contract the corona virus in the next
two months he said that in the letter he
sent to President Donald Trump this week
he asked that Trump immediately deploy
the USNS mercy hospital ship to be
stationed at the Port of Los Angeles
through early September Newsom says the
hospital ship can help support the
health care system as the number of
coronavirus patients and cases grow
within the last week hundreds of schools
across California have closed in order
to stop the spread of the corona virus
California's governor has told parents
and teachers to prepare to be out of
school until autumn at least as
districts move to online teaching ABC
tents Giacomo Lucca looks at one local
district going above and beyond
unprecedented school closures have left
playgrounds in classrooms empty across
the state sometimes you just need to
show good friends always stick together
they said that has educator stepping up
in ways they've never had to before
yesterday I read a story to them and I
started a YouTube channel so the kids
can access that and just hear me read
she's joining a cohort of educators who
are continuing to teach and comfort
their students despite school closures
at the end of the day we're still
responsible for trying to get those
standards out to the kids before school
started closing leaders were planning
for alternative programs outside the
classroom so that we can try to bring a
bit of normalcy to the homes and the
families since closing last Friday w USD
has passed out laptops to some students
and voluntary packets to help all grades
like Rosanna Castro's six children I was
kind of at a loss what to do with as far
part of the education piece so we were
grateful that that was available and
with 67% of its 8,000 students who rely
on school lunches they're joining
districts across the state who are
continuing to provide meals
today I came to pick up food because we
are in a very bad situation I recently
lost my job as our communities begin to
feel the impact families
our grateful mucho you they need it's a
lot of help I think God that they're
here miss your kids and you want to be
back in the class you know I do I miss
them so much
hi guys hi Kailyn Kinder's