The Grand Princess cruise ship, docked at Pier 27 in San Francisco on Oct. 3, 2019. (Photo by Michael Gwyther-Jones/Flickr)

Thousands of people returning to the Bay Area from a Hawaiian cruise will have to wait a bit longer to go home, after a California man who had recently been aboard the ship died from complications of the novel coronavirus.

Some people on board the Grand Princess cruise ship will be tested for COVID-19, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday during a state of emergency proclamation. The ship, bound for San Francisco, remained off the coast of California pending its arrival in port that had been scheduled for Thursday.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.