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More Than 12,000 Coronavirus Cases Have Been Reported at California Child Care Centers
Children play in the backyard of Ana Ballesteros home where she runs a day care in Delano on Feb. 26, 2021. Photo by Shae Hammond for CalMatters
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Ana Bertha Ballesteros had to close her home child care in Delano for more than two weeks around Thanksgiving when COVID-19 came to her center. A child and their family were exposed and tested positive. Then Ballesteros did too.
She is terrified of it happening again.
“I’m very concerned,” Ballesteros said. “Thank God I made it for those 14 days but if we were to have another exposure what is going to happen with me and my family? It’s our only income.”