For a total of 25,000 a day by the end of the month. A longterm goal is 60,000 tests a day. Abc7 News Reporter Lyanne Melendez live in the newsroom with details of the governors plan. Lyanne . Larry, if you ask me the headline today is clearly that the state will revamp testing. Were going show you some projected numbers in just a few. That will then determine when sectors of our economy will reopen. With that said, a lot of Business Owners and employees are disappointed but not surprised. California hospitals have not experienced the anticipated surge of covid19 patients. Guided by the number of empty hospital beds, governor gavin newsom said he would now allow hospit hospitals to perform elective surgeries. Tumor, heart valve, the need for people to gethe kind of care they need. If it gets delayed, it becomes acute. Any other decision to open parts of our economy will rely on two factor, testing and tracking the virus. The lack of swab testing has been a obstacle. Here are the number
Show up. So many people that the Hayward Police department theyre already out doing Traffic Control there were some people actually part right next to the tense and they said you have to leave now and enter from this other direction, this is hunt would avenue not show you the address and just a few moments as far as the pinpoint address, but you can see the center right here the whole idea is to take this stress off the hospitals send the First Responders the nurses, the Community Members here who are showing symptoms that is important because i just found out from people here that if you are not showing symptoms of Coronavirus Police say the kits for other people who might need them more than you and youve more than likely will be turned away. It will begin in 2 hours so now goes all the way till 6 oclock this evening. The idea is if you do test positive for coronavirus are youve been exposed to coronavirus and have symptoms the whole idea is to get you out of the system get you out o
Ray proctor teaches a class about contributions to the africanamerican theater and the Pulitzer Prize winning play fences. Today were going to look at August Wilsons fences. Well begin with a very brief discussion about who and what August Wilson was, his goal as a playwrig playwright. Im going to repeat some stuff youve heard before from our inclass conversation but theres going to be some stuff im going to talk about in a little bit more depth than we talked about last class. On thursday you guys are going to look at tbone and weasel. I hope you all read that and prepare to do that. Ill give you a very quick pop quiz. Were going to take it so you can get a grade for it and youll also have the pop quiz for tbone and wiesel. Lets start with augustwilson. August wilson was born Frederick August kittle on april 27, 1945. His mothers name was daisy wilson, a cleaning lady. His father was Frederick August kittle. He was a german baker. Race matters in a very specific way. Race is always on
Also asking congress for a tax cut and other measures to ease the financial burden caused by the outbreak and concern over the virus. The arch diocese of San Francisco says theyre closing all 90 catholic schools. Diocese of San Francisco says theyre closing all 90 catholic schools. Some schools will already close this week for spring break. Course content will be delivered via the diocese Distance Learning protocol. Health officials in Contra Costa County declared a state of emergency today because of the coronavirus. They announce new cases and say most people who have tested positive were infected by community spread. Andre senior here with more on that. And also the school that is set to undergo a deepcleaning because of one of their students is now in quarantine. Reporter on tuesday afternoon, Health Officials announced nine covid19 cases. And a tenth person with a presumptive case of the virus. Two of which were on the grand princess cruise ship during its trip to mexico in februa
Updated numbers. 157 people have tested positive for coronavirus. Thats up 24 from yesterday. Two people have now died. One in Santa Clara County. And one in placer county. The state is monitoring 10,300 people who came into california on evacuation flights. This afternoon, Contra Costa County joined other bay area counties and declared a state of emergency saying that the virus appears to be circulating in the community. Contra Costa Health Services and public recommend that Large Community events be postponed or canceled. That means gatherings where 50 or more people would be within arms reach of each other. Concert, sporting evens, celebrations, services and other community events. We have Live Team Coverage tonight. We begin with tom vacar, once again monitoring the situation at the port of oakland and that cruise ship. Reporter the news that you just told us about, all these various stories, suggest one thing. That this is nowhere near being over. It is a situation which is develo