Bay Area coronavirus updates: PG&E suspending non-payment service disconnections
As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases continued to grow around the Bay Area Thursday, public officials expanded efforts to curb the virus' spread.
Two new cases were detected in San Mateo County; the public health department updated its website to reflect 17 in-county cases at 9:32 a.m. (up from 15 on Wednesday), but didn't immediately provide details on the two new patients.
Santa Clara County, the county with the most confirmed cases in the Bay Area — 66 as of Thursday afternoon — declared a state of emergency and ordered the cancellation of all mass gatherings for three weeks. San Francisco Mayor London Breed has done the same in San Francisco.