California is declaring a state of emergency in light of its 1st death due to coronavirus in Placer County AND b/c of the revelation that person was likely exposed during a Feb. 11-21 cruise on a Princess cruise ship that departed from San Francisco to Mexico, Gov. Newsom says
Newsom said "by one estimate over 50% of the passengers ... roughly 2,500 passengers that does not include the crew are Californians."
Officials are working to contact all of the passengers from that cruise.
Officials are working to contact all of the passengers from that cruise.
On top of that, Newsom said the same ship is coming back from a second cruise to Hawaii and is being held off the coast of SF so that they can fly COVID-19 test kits to the ship and sent those back to the state.
He said "a number of" passengers & crew have developed symptoms.
He said "a number of" passengers & crew have developed symptoms.
Newsom says the ship is still at least a day out off the coast, meaning that they have time to decide what to do when it gets to land.
He adds that about 50 to 60 passengers from the Mexico cruise stayed on for the Hawaii cruise.
"Obviously we’ll want to test those individuals," Newsom said.
"Obviously we’ll want to test those individuals," Newsom said.
California had 5,904 COVID-19 test kits available as of this am, and will send a few hundred, "whatever they need" to the ship, Newsom said, adding that those kits will be replenished.
