The strong message from San Francisco mayor london breed after people were getting together in San Francisco. And not social distancing. Thank you so much for joining us tonight at 5 im Justine Waldman now mayor breed along with other city leaders urge people to comply with the shelterinplace order and warned if they do not the city will have to take action to enforce it as kron fours kate rooney explains this is happening amid a surge of coronavirus cases. In a Virtual Press Conference Today mayor london breed and other city officials shared the latest on San Franciscos response to the coronavirus pandemic the city now has 131 confirmed cases of covid 19 and director of Health Doctor grant colfax said a major surge is still to be expected. I am sad to have to say that the worst is yet to come. Every community where the virus has taken hold. Has seen a surge in kind of a coronavirus patients who need to be hospitalized to prepare for the anticipated rise in patients needing treatment m
Reported case to reach the first. 100,000 cases. 11 days for the second 100,000 cases. And just. For. Days for the senate. 100,000. Cases. Now its 6 those are staggering statistics from the World Health Organization coronavirus cases around the world climbing at a rapid pace. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 6 im justine waldman. Globally there are now more than 375,000 cases of the coronavirus and over 16,000 people have died. And then in the us there are 43,000 cases and the number of deaths has topped 500 in california alone there are more than 2000 cases and 38 people have died. This information is all according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus tracker map. An Alameda County has confirmed its first death related to the Coronavirus Health Officials Say the person had no known travel or known contact was someone who had a confirmed case of the virus. Officials are releasing very limited information about the patient. Only saying that they were elderl
Now at 5 as we approach the weekend then coronavirus cases continue to climb in the bay area and beyond city leaders are issuing a stern warning follow the stay at home order or you could face consequences. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us tonight here on kron 4 news at 5 im justine waltman tonight there are 1600 confirmed cases of covid 19 here in the bay area and 35 people have died. Today Santa Clara County announced its 20th death from covid 19 and there have been 574 cases overall San Mateo County has 239 cases and 6 people have died, San Francisco county reports. 279 cases and 3 deaths. Contra costa county has 147 cases and one death. Alameda county 204 cases and 4 deaths. There have been 65 coronavirus cases in marine county solano has 34 sonoma cnty has 50 cases and one death and napa county has 8 cases and as the number of cases continues to go up San Francisco is now taking steps to slow the spread of the virus with the weekend now arriving. Policchief bill s
Infections. Nearly 1600 people have died in california there are now over 4600 cases and 94 people have died. Today the u s and asked mercy arrived in the port of los angeles to help ease the burden of hospitals that are trying to treat coronavirus patients. The Navy Hospital ship contains a dozen fully equipped operating rooms and a 1000 hospital beds. It will be used for relocating patients who are undergoing treatments that are unrelated to covid 19. And we had a somber warning from los angeles today as the city there prepares to be the epicenter of coronavirus cases in the United States that saw a significant surge of kelvin 19 cases kron fours kate rooney has the very latest. With 257 new confirmed cases in los anles today and 5 new deaths la is readying for an even greater expected surge in the coming days, yesterdays increase though of over 50 would of course have a doubling rate of less than 2 days. By that measure we would be where new york city is number ofases per capita in
California there are more than 3,000 cases tonight the number of corona virus cases in the bay area does continue to rise, heres where the numbers stand as of 5 oclock Santa Clara County reporting 83 more cases today that brings the total to 542 19 deaths, San Mateo County has 195 5 deaths San Francisco 223 2 deaths Contra Costa County 131 cases and one death Alameda County 164. 4 deaths. Were in now reporting 60 cases Solano County 31 Sonoma County 44 1 death and that the county has 6 cases. While the number of cases and the state does continue to climb new york state has more than 10 times the number were seeing in california and their hospitals are overflowing tonight kron fours dan kerman talk to medical experts about whether that is a preview of things to come here or of california may be flattening the curve and dan joins us live from the ucsf Medical Center. Dan. Well catherine medical experts believe that here in california. We are indeed flattening the curve and in fact gettin