Has ordered people to wear face masks in public if they cannot social distance. One of the big focuses right now is on Contact Tracing, trying to identify who may have come in contact with an infected person. Abc7 News Reporter kris reyes is live in San Francisco with this important part of the investigation and how it can help reduce infections. Chris . Good afternoon, liz. For people who are hearing this term for the first time, it simply means the ability of Public Health officials to track down every Single Person that a covid19 positive patient came into contact with. And you can imagine as cases have grown how complicated this task is. Well, today mayor london breed announced the citys ability to do widespread Contact Tracing investigations and how it will help reopen the economy. Have a listen. Our goal is to chase down all of those people and to either help them if they are covid and get them into quarantine, or to basically give them the relief that they are not infeblged. It
Stolen by greed and arrogance. Growing concern about containing shortterm rates for Balance Sheets. We hear exclusively from bill dudley. Kathleen later in Bloomberg Technology global link, a new report says juul is the target of a criminal investigation. Another major setback for the ecigarette giant. Now a quick reminder on how u. S. Stocks ended on this monday. You can see nearly mixed. We have to say flat but it was a bit of a recovery after fridays a slump. Volume about 28 below average. 0. 06 . At any rate, people are watching markets. People are watching the economy and the purchasing Managers Index is, from the market group. They were pretty good for the u. S. They held it above 50 for manufacturing and services. Not so for european look at what happened to the euro after the week numbers from germany. We were looking at the Bloomberg Euro index. On the far side, quite a draw at the end but if you take a look the more, you are seeing index is at its weakest level since 2017. Ge
Enough. And more signs of stress. The fed will add liquidity to a vital corner of funding markets for a fourth straight day on friday. Later, huawei unveils an android powered smartphone without any google apps on the device. How the u. S. Ban is holding back the techtarget. First, we are seeing u. S. Futures at the moment unchanged after u. S. Stocks ended mixed on this thursday. We have seen stocks gained ground after positive comments on trade coming from the white house economic advisor, larry kudlow, but then those stocks pared back earlier gains after we heard from a trump advisor hinting at 50 to 100 tariffs on chinese goods. Also not to mention energy was under pressure today by the fact that oil stabilize, but we had two sessions of losses for crude prices, so the Energy Sector was down. The dow lost more than 50 points, the s p 500 unchanged and we also had a bond rally for a fourth consecutive session. We have seen, as paul mentioned, the oecd cutting Global Growth forecast,
Therefore bade us from crossing into rwanda because the Customs Office was not working inquired about it and they said its because of. Health workers in goma say they are well prepared and are continuing to trace people who could have made contact with a ball of victims when the World Health Organization declared a bola in the d r c a Public Health emergency of International Concern officials warned countries against closing borders saying people may start using informal crossings where there are no proper medical check points and this could just make things west were talking hundreds of process if not more. So lets cover is counterproductive because it interferes with that and is certainly find another way or more remote here is where you can go across the knee border you can find a different way. Of Vaccination Campaign is underway and other regions in the east india are so. But a controversial proposal by the World Health Organization to deploy a new 2nd vaccine for Clinical Trials
Well tes will hit the upper 80s inland in some spots, coming up. Emily . Weve got a couple hot spots on our own. Two other thans to report. One in the bay bridge. There is an accident that is blocking one of the slow lanes. And it feels like all of those lanes are slow at the moment. Because metering lights are on because it is back to normal for the moment. Also, east shore, you can see in the distance, moving along pretty well in the westbound direction. Eastbound direction, though, the offramp, we have an accident that we are tracking likely that is not in the commute direction. Brake lights starting to pop up. Youll have a whole lot more company. In the eastbound direction, though, everything there looks good to go. And finally, off to the richmond, san rafael bridge, we are seeing a little slowing at youre movinthrouga pr rate of speed. Our main travel times, no longer in the green. Although youre not in the red in the altamonte pass anymore. East shore freeway, in the yellow. Sam