Santa Clara Health Officer: We Are ‘Seeing A Little Bit Of Slowing’ Of New Coronavirus Cases

SANTA CLARA (CBS SF) — Amid the worst outbreak of the coronavirus in the San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody on Tuesday offered some words of hope to local residents.

The county reported the Bay Area’s first positive case of the virus in January, an illness related to travel. But then it crept into the local community and began to spread.

Cody said she was seeing evidence that social distancing was beginning to work.

To help that along, county officials announced tough new shelter-in-place standards on Tuesday and joined other Bay Area counties in extending the current lockdown order until May 3rd.