And i am elizabeth cook. So far more than 9000 people have died from covid, we are in hayward with how Health Officials are cutting down the testing wait time. For weeks, trying to get a coronavirus test across the bay area has been a problem with firstcome firstserved locations available. You can now mark one more off the list but they will still be producing the same number of tests every single day. They rush to locate and isolate new cases of coronavirus continues in the state of california like at this testing site near the airport. We are trying to squeeze in as many test as we can you will need an appointment unlike the station. Going all the way down mission boulevard which is probably a couple miles away, so the wait times were really bad, so what this does is cuts down on the wait time and the traffic. While testing is increasing key indicators spread are in modest decline statewide. There were just over 5700 new cases reported over the weekend which pushed the seven day aver
Unfortunately, over the last two or three weeks, things have gotten out of hand. I think we let our guard down. Reporter dr. Robert says the period after memorial day weekend was a turning point in that socalled california miracle. These are the charts that worry him. Abc7 news analyzed the numbers and found that six cabrera counties saw a spike in covid19 hospitalizations between may 22nd and june 29th. In the case of marin county, the hospitalization rate went from 1. 15 . In San Francisco, 4. 94 to 7 . If we continue to see some of the surges were seeing, there is no good reason to think we wont be packed with Covid Patients within two, three, four weeks. Reporter here are more troubling numbers. Total covid19 cases in the bay area on june 29th, almost 24,000. Thats a 74 increase from may 29th when we were at just over 13,000. At ucsf, there are currently 20 in patients. 11 are in icu. We are double where we were two or three weeks ago. Overnight, there were a bunch of people admitt
But she also says San Francisco is doing better in flattening the curve. Hello everyone, im Catherine Heenan a big update today in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic mayor breed announcing a program to streamline Contact Tracing thats one of the Things Considered essential in california before restrictions are loosened kron fours kate rooney explains how the program will help. Its called contact. Tracing and the city of San Francisco hopes it will be a major step both in getting through shelter in place and jump starting life afterwards. We can have people tested that may have been in contact with someone who has been infected because our goal is to chase down all of those people. And to either help them if theyre covid and get them into quarantine or to basically give them the relief that they are not infected. The department of health is partnering with ucsf to get the program up and running 50 people have already been trained to work on Contact Tracing with a 150 expected to
Francisco county reported 2 new deaths and 26 additional cases Alameda County has 13 new deaths today and 74 new cases Contra Costa County reporting 2 additional deaths 15 new cases, 5 more people have died in Santa Clara County where there are 127 new cases and Solano County has one new case well shelter at home orders are necessary to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Its not the safest environment for some specifically those experiencing violence at home like many other Community Organizations next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence. In san jose says it is seeing Domestic Violence escalate kron fours Taylor Bisacky tells us what theyre experiencing in how theyre trying to help Domestic Violence survivors. With stay at home orders in place survivors of Domestic Violence are at an increased risk of danger by their abusers. There are a lot of concerns that we have at this time you know because basically these victims are at the scene of the crime. There is still abuse and by happene
Aggressive strategy is working to battle continues, but the data suggested nationwide we have passed. The peak horn new cases. Today President Trump says guidelines to reopen the country are coming tomorrow afternoon. Thank you for joining us tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus. And im Vicki Liviakis this as the president signals america might be past the pandemic peak. But despite the bending of the National Curve different areas are on different timelines today, los angeles reported record deaths and in new york your now required to wear a mask or Face Covering while in public. Meanwhile. Were up to 5600 confirmed cases of covid19 and today, San Francisco county reported. 2 new deaths in 26 2 cases, Alameda County reporting 13 new deaths today to go along with 74 new cases, Contra Costa County 2 additional deaths 15 new cases, 5 more people have died in Santa Clara County where there are 127 new cases and in Solano County there is one new case and tonight there are more than 2 million