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Thursday, April 23, 2026

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Coronavirus Live Updates, March 20, 2020: Local Lockdown Goes Statewide With No End in Sight

That Bay Area stay-at-home order meant to last three weeks? It applies to all of California now and no one’s sure how long it’ll last.

As people adjust to life under lockdown, lawmakers from D.C. to City Hall have been working on ways to keep the economy moving.

Decades of community-building suffers a setback as performances cancel, dining goes takeout-only and the economy slides into recession.

The coronavirus threatens to swell the ranks of poor Californians as restaurants, stores and other businesses shutter and workers stay home.

So where are we on this? Who can get tested and where exactly should you go? If you do get a hold of a test, is it going to cost anything?

Drive-through testing has rolled out, giving local health officials more tools to map out the scope of the problems in the Bay Area and beyond.

Delays and incompetence in the federal government’s COVID-10 testing set the U.S. far behind other countries in controlling the pandemic.

Low turnout for the Census Bureau’s decennial count could jeopardize the state’s 53 congressional seats, along with billions in federal funding.

As COVID-19 testing slowly ramps up throughout the U.S., most of the Bay Area hunkers down at home. Welcome to day one of the lockdown.

A day after the state urged bars to close and seniors to stay home, South Bay public health officials announce new measures to curb the outbreak.

Restaurants can remain open as long as they reduce capacity by half and require customers to stay at least six feet apart from one another.

All this pandemic news is overwhelming. We’ll do our best to keep you up to date on how COVID-19 is impacting life in Santa Clara County.

The expansion of telephonic payment services aligns with guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control promoting “social distancing.”

As of today, the city reports that 16 are back at work and 52 remain on paid leave to avoid passing the illness on to other people.

Silicon Valley officials held a press conference at SJC to share updates about the outbreak and demand answers from the federal government.

The guidance applies to all non-essential work and social events that draw people into a shared space at the same time—both indoors and out.