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Our staff photojournalists take a look at life around the Bay Area on Day 15 of the coronavirus shelter-in-place.
Orders have now been extended through May 3 with new and tighter restrictions, and state Superintendent of Schools Tony Thurmond announced that schools likely will remain closed for the rest of this academic year to help contain the coronavirus pandemic.
The order’s new directives are below:
- Use of playgrounds, dog parks, public picnic areas, and similar recreational areas is prohibited. These areas must be closed to public use.
- Use of shared public recreational facilities such as golf courses, tennis and basketball courts, pools, and rock walls is prohibited. These facilities must be closed for recreational use.
- Sports requiring people to share a ball or other equipment must be limited to people in the same household.
- Essential businesses must develop a social distancing protocol before April 3.
- Most construction—residential and commercial—is prohibited.
- Funerals are limited to no more than 10 people attending.
- Essential businesses will include service providers that enable residential transactions (notaries, title companies, Realtors, etc.); funeral homes and cemeteries; moving companies, rental car companies and rideshare services that specifically enable essential activities.
- Essential businesses that continue to operate facilities must scale down operations to their essential component only.
SAN JOSE, CA – MARCH 31: Mariela Loza, 18, of San Jose, left, and her mother, Elda Gorostieta, 54, talk with this news organization in front of the Safeway store on West San Carlos Street in San Jose, Calif., on March 31, 2020. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) 
SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA – MARCH 31: Work continues on the Miro residential project on East Santa Clara Street during the coronavirus shutdown, Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in San Jose, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) 
OAKLAND, CA – MARCH 31: Oakland firefighters respond to a single vehicle crash on Interstate 580 westbound near the Seminary Avenue exit in Oakland, Cailf., on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Firefighters and other first responders have been using personal protective equipment due to the spread of the coronavirus. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) 
REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 31: The Fox Theater marquee in Redwood City, Calif., asks people to help “flatten that curve” on Day 15 of the coronavirus shutdown, Tuesday, March 31, 2020. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) 
OAKLAND, CA – MARCH 31: City of Oakland workers are seen in downtown Oakland, Cailf., on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Due to coronavirus spread, only essential work is being allowed. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) 
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 31: Denise Olenak finishes a mural in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, March 31, 2020, honoring health care workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) 
DUBLIN, CA – MARCH 30: Construction workers work on a housing development during the coronavirus shelter-in-place in Dublin, Calif., on Tuesday, March 30, 2020. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) 
OAKLAND, CA – MARCH 31: Michael Blake, of Oakland, walks his dog Dolly past social distancing warning signs at the Parkridge Gate in Anthony Chabot Regional Park in Oakland, Cailf., on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Due to coronavirus spread, use of dog parks is now prohibited. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group) 
SAN JOSE, CA – MARCH 31: Lauren Flood of San Jose talks with this news organization in front of the Safeway store on West San Carlos Street in San Jose, Calif., on March 31, 2020. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) 
SAN JOSE, CA – MARCH 31: A crew demolishes a building at the Santa Clara County Department of Correction along North San Pedro Street in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Six Bay Area counties and the city of Berkeley announced new stricter stay-at-home rules, that include prohibiting most residential and commercial construction. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
