News from the holy oaks home. On sunday night, Lieutenant Governor, secretary and i first learned of the tragic situation that was unfolding at the holy oaks home. As of today, there are 13 confirmed deaths at the facility with at least six attributed to covid19. Someone who visited this amazing place on multiple occasions and found it to be a source of joy and grace and comfort and kindness for the residents their families and the staff that works there this episode is a gutwrenching loss that is nothing short of devastating to all of us. Our hearts go out to the families and the loved ones and the staff who have been so horribly impacted by this series of events. We have Public Health experts on the ground conducting thorough review of the Health Status of all the residents and staff there. We spoke to several members new team on the ground there this morning. Immediate steps have been taken such as implementing clinical command team and testing all patients and staff at the facility
Days the California National guard has been put on alert and schools are closed for the foreseeable future. What you need to know tonight to keep your family safe is most of the bay area is under a shelterinplace order kron 4 news at 5 starts right now. Thanks for joining us. Everybody, im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus tonight we are continuing to practice social distancing here at kron 4 we are of course encouraging you to do the same. For the first time global cases of covid 19 have surpassed 200,000 as the death toll around the world and here at home just keeps on climbing. In the bay area there are now more than 400 cases Santa Clara County is a local hot spot for cases there are 175 6 deaths there officials announce another death from tuesday of a man in his 60s, San Mateo County has 80 81 death the San Francisco county has 51 Contra Costa County 41 Alameda County 31 Solano County has 8 moraine county 15 Sonoma County has 8 and napa county has no confirmed cases at this time.
Number of infected exploding out of control we really have a choice to make right now as the nation do we want to go the way of italy and see our numbers increase rapidly or do we want to go the way of south korea in china that choice to self isolate and shelter in place will determine how well the outbreak is handled here. The people are taking it seriously you not just affecting your health anymore. Youre affecting everybodys health in washington nadia romero kron 4 news. The situation continues to be very dire in italy tonight that country now has more than 31,000 cases of coronavirus more than 2500 people have died. The average age of those who died is 80 most of them if not all had pre existing conditions and the vast majority had only 8 days between when they started showing symptoms and when they died at least 60 Million People are living in a state of almost complete lockdown as authorities try to contain the virus for california. Now find themselves on employed in the wake of
Americans during this coronavirus pandemic social dense distancing is very important in our daily lives in no different here thats why we are so far apart to maintthasocial distance were practicing the guidelines to the centers for Disease Control recommends. And we encourage you to do the same thing. Tonight around the world more than 8,800 people have died from the coronavirus is with more than 218,000 cases reported globally. There are more than 9,300 cases in the United States with the death toll up to 150 in california, the total number of cases up his up to 865 with 16 deaths. These tallies come from Johns Hopkins Medical Center and we have that centers interactive map on our website you can see it at kron 4 dot com. As the outbreak grows so do the questions about how long this will continue to affect our day to day lives particularly for families how are schools responding now that campuses could be closed for the rest of the summer. Well boys grant lotus is here to explain what
This crisis headon and to address the needs of our most vulnerable on the streets and the sidewalks 50 Million Dollars on top of that for hotel motel conversions and heres the thinking. Were running models and ill just give you. One of those models for the purpose of full transparency over the next 8 week period. We have modeled then of the 108,000 unsheltered californians that are out on the streets. If you had an attack rate. Of about 56 . Youre looking at 60 plus 1000 individuals that may. Have covid 19 that creates a deep. Point of anxiety for the existing population but moreover for our Health Care Delivery system our capacity to move people in and out of the shelter safely without contacting other people in putting them at risk as well. So become good because governor Gavin Newsome expect 60,000 Homeless People to contract the coronavirus in the next 8 weeks. He is also preparing more than 1300 trailers that he just bought today and will install them across the state live in the