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Area residents good evening. Everybody thank you for joining us tonight on kron 4 news at 8 im pam moore and im ken wayne until now wearing face wear in public was an option but that will no longer be the case in 6 bay area county says ride these new directives com as the number of covid19 cases here in the bay area continues to rise. There are now more than 6,000 confirmed cases and 196 people have lost their lives on your screen you can see how the numbers break down county by county. Santa cl...

To get going again not all states are the same theyre very different some are having very little problem some of done such a good job they have very little problem and theyre ready to go new york is still the front line of the pandemic in the u. S. But the highest number of reported infections and deaths and even though new infections seem to have slowed in recent days hospitals there are stretched to breaking point talk to particularly is an internal medicines hospitalist in new york city he sa...

Spain which is and you know very hard is mike hanna has more in what the governor of new york is doing to try to curb the spread of the virus. The Governor Cuomo words 1st lee has ratcheted up controls in new york city ordering that all playgrounds in the city be shut this because he says people were simply not being compliant with the social distancing regulations so he had no option but to shut down the playgrounds no more basketball he insisted its a game that cannot be played during this par...

Welcome to the april 6, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Im joined on this Video Conference with rules Committee Vice chair supervisor katherine stefani. Our clerk today is victor young and id like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Yes. Due to the covid19 healthy emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors litingive chamber and Committee Room are ...

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We are standing by for the daily task force briefing. Hear that President Trump recently spoke with Vice President joe biden. Also, u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson has now gone into the icu. Positive 10 days ago and his symptoms have only gotten worse since then. Rosalind joins us on the phone from london. What do we know about the Prime Ministers condition at this late hour . He had been isolating himself at home for 10 days now. He was attending meetings by video link and sending selfie vid...

And we are also looking at the data. And we feel that, you know, we need to continue to look at the data, its too early to say that this is completely been taken care of and we have accomplished everything that we want to do with the shelter in place, which again, to remind everyone, is to try to decrease the speed at which people are getting infections with covid19. Primarily so that we dont have a lot of people becoming very ill at once and overwhelming our hospital system. So, were measuring ...

The bay area atop the newscast but more importantly we will talk about tomorrows ring which looks more impressive than this coming up. For joining us, im juliette goodrich. Im Brian Hackney in the kpix5 studio, we learned that an inmate at the santa rita jail in dublin has tested positive for coronavirus, we are told they are being treated roundtheclock in the medical unit, the first case at the facility. 3300 cases in the bay area about one third of them in st. Clair county. 87 patients across ...

With two california universities that aims to streamline and speed up the testing process. We specifically have a new partnership with uc davis, and uc san diego to create a minimum of 57 hubs where we have high input, where we will work with different vendors, not be prescriptive on the exact type of testing. But working with these hubs to significantly increase our Testing Capacity and our collaborative spirit. Within those hubs. California is nearing 13,000 cases and 288 deaths in the bay are...

To test for coronavirus and to track and isolate those who lai to be met before the states shelter in place is lifted and the governor says the state is testing an average of 14,500 people a day. By the governor says he wants at least 25,000 people tested a day by the end of this month. Over the weekend California Public Health Officials recommended testing people in high risk settings if they do not have symptoms and will bring you the governors News Conference live as it is a gets underway. Mo...