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Total coronavirus cases:

• 1,880,990 cases in California, including 22,742 deaths

• 221,560 cases in the Bay Area, including 2,268 deaths. Click on the Chronicle’s Coronavirus Tracker for a U.S. map and state by state case count and tally of deaths.

Latest updates from today:

4:53 p.m. California opens field hospitals to cope with crush of coronavirus cases: With intensive care capacity buckling under an unprecedented surge in coronavirus cases, California has opened four field hospitals where dozens of patients are now being treated. The state plans to bring in more than 800 additional health care providers. Read the story here.

4:15 p.m. How the new federal stimulus bill will help unemployed Californians: Some people in California could end up receiving as many as 70 weeks of regular unemployment benefits including benefits already received, if Congress passes and President Trump signs the bill. Read Kathleen Pender’s column here.

4:15 p.m. U.S tops 18 million cases of COVID-19: There have been at least 18,006,061 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The country has registered at least 319,190 deaths as of Monday afternoon. The U.S. reached 17 million cases on Thursday.

4:06 p.m. Waymo signs one of Bay Area’s largest leases of 2020: The self-driving car company, a division of Google parent Alphabet, is expanding in Mountain View. The deal is a sign that big tech is still growing despite the pandemic’s effect on remote work and follows recent investments by Amazon and Facebook.

3:40 p.m. Nevada open to tourists if masked: Unlike neighboring California, Nevada is encouraging holiday visitors. Even though the state topped 200,000 coronavirus infections and recorded 73 new deaths over the weekend, Las Vegas casinos are open with capacity limits “determined by the governor,” state tourism promotions chief Brenda Scolari said on a media call, the Associated Press reports. Nevada has occupancy limits for restaurants, bars, casinos and gyms, but tourists are welcomed as long as they wear masks and follow safety measures. Sclolari said Las Vegas properties “are acting with safety of visitors in mind and have every measure in place that’s necessary to make New Year’s Eve safe and memorable.”

3:30 p.m. Hospitals have emergency plans ready: California’s overwhelmed hospitals are setting up extra beds for coronavirus patients, and a handful of facilities in Los Angeles County are drawing up emergency plans in case they have to limit how many people receive life-saving care. Crisis plans for rationing care in the state are not in effect yet as officials work to avoid that eventuality, but hospitals must have them ready, said top California health official, Dr. Mark Ghaly told a briefing Monday.

3:25 p.m. Napa sees 65 patients and staff infected so far: Sixty-five patients and staff at California’s oldest psychiatric hospital have been diagnosed with coronavirus infections — the facility’s largest spike in patient cases since the start of the pandemic, according to data reported on the state website. Read more here.

3:18 p.m. U.S. death toll rises above 319,000: More than 319,000 U.S. residents now have lost their lives to the coronavirus, tracking by Johns Hopkins University researchers showed Monday.

3:14 p.m. Stay-home in SoCal and San Joaquin Valley likely to extend: California will probably extend the stay-home orders for the Southern California and San Joaquin Valley regions before they expire next Monday, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. Both regions have no intensive care capacity left in their hospitals, state data shows. “I think it’s pretty self-evident,” Newsom said at a virtual news briefing. “Based upon all the data and based upon all these trend lines, it’s very likely that we’ll need to extend.” Read more here.

3:04 p.m. The lowdown on the new mutant coronavirus: The new mutation of the coronavirus in the United Kingdom is sending ripples of alarm worldwide and triggering strict travel restrictions that could reach all the way to California and the Bay Area. Read The Chronicle’s story on what we know so far about this fast-spreading variant.

2:58 p.m. Biden gets vaccinated on live TV: President-elect Joe Biden received a coronavirus vaccine shot before the TV cameras on Monday, and encouraged all Americans “to take the vaccine when its available.” He added, “Theres nothing to worry about,” a comment aimed at the significant numbers of Americans who polling shows are reluctant to get vaccinated. Biden said the Trump administration “deserves some credit for getting this off the ground” with its Operation Warp Speed aimed at pushing for rapid vaccine development against the deadly virus.

2:47 p.m. Newsom says state to get $8.5 billion from federal aid package: Gov. Gavin Newsom estimated Monday that California will receive $8.5 billion from the new coronavirus relief package that Congress was to vote on Monday. He said the state also expects to receive $1 billion for child care assistance. But California will come up short of the amount Newsom had hoped for to balance the state budget after Republicans blocked dollars that they argued would amount to a bailout for poorly run governments.

2:30 p.m. Vatican calls vaccines based on stem-cell research “morally acceptable”: It is OK for Roman Catholics to receive COVID-19 vaccines that are based on research using cells from aborted fetuses, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced Monday. The Associated Press reports that the guidance came after some U.S. religious leaders, including one in California, argued that such products were immoral. The Vatican decreed, “It is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses” in the research and production process when “ethically irreproachable” vaccines aren’t available to the public.

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2:30 p.m. Eric Clapton and Van Morrison record anti-lockdown track: The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have joined forces to release a new track called “Stand and Deliver,” a blues vamp that rages against U.K. coronavirus restrictions. Lyrics include, “Do you wanna be a free man / Or do you wanna be a slave? / Do you wanna wear these chains / Until you’re lying in the grave?” The song is Morrison’s fourth lashing out against pandemic safety measures, which he calls “pseudo-science.”