Coronavirus live updates: 30,000 deaths in US

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Total coronavirus cases:

• 27,079 in California, including 879 deaths.

• 5,656 in the Bay Area, including 169 deaths.

• 640,140 in the U.S., including 31,001 deaths. The five states with the highest death tolls are New York with 14,073; New Jersey with 3,156; Michigan with 1,921; Massachusetts with 1,108; and Louisiana with 1,103. Click here to see a U.S. map with state-by-state death tolls and coronavirus case counts.

• More than 2 million in the world, with more than 139,000 deaths. More than 528,000 people have recovered.

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Latest developments from today:

9:14 a.m. TSA will accept recently expired driver’s licenses: State-issued drivers licenses or ID’s that expired on or after March 31 will be accepted at TSA checkpoints, the agency said. The Transportation Security Administration will accept the expired licenses and ID’s for a year after expiration or 60 days after the end of COVID-19 restrictions.

9:09 a.m. New York state extends “pause” order until May 15: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday the state’s order to pause life in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus will be extended until May 15. Cuomo said he did not want to predict what will happen then but that data will likely guide officials’ decisions.

9:06 a.m. Coronavirus cases climb on Navy aircraft carrier: Forty more Theodore Roosevelt sailors tested positive for the coronavirus, and another sailor was hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms, the Navy announced Thursday. The number of crew tested aboard the aircraft carrier remained at 94%. More than 4,000 sailors have moved off the ship docked in Guam. A skeleton crew remains onboard to maintain the nuclear reactors and protect the weaponry. One sailor has died from COVID-19 complications and another has been moved to the intensive care unit.

9 a.m. Six new COVID-19 cases in San Francisco: Six more people in San Francisco have tested positive for COVID-19, increasing the number of confirmed cases to 1,019, according to the Department of Public Health.

8:52 a.m. U.S. death toll tops 30,000: More than 30,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, according to the latest numbers compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 650,000 cases have been confirmed, with 31,001 deaths. Nearly 530,000 people have recovered.

8:49 a.m. Coronavirus makes for explosive politics: Campaigns across the country, from the presidential race on down, are using the coronavirus to batter their opponents for what they have or haven’t done to fight the pandemic. With most Americans virtually confined to their homes and the virus death toll rising daily, politicians are betting that worried voters will reward those who are taking their concerns seriously and, equally important, punish those who they don’t believe are doing enough. Read more of John Wildermuth’s story here.

8:44 a.m. New York sees decrease in coronavirus hospitalizations, ICU patients: The number of people in New York state who are hospitalized and in intensive care unit beds for COVID-19 treatment decreased, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, but he cautioned the virus is still a threat as 1,996 new cases were confirmed while 606 people died on Wednesday. “Two thousand is still a lot of people,“ Cuomo said.