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
Likely run oz as early as tonight. No word yet on a new deal which is leaving businesses worried the wait will force them to close. For 60 years, the millbrae pancake house has been an institution. But like millions of others, the iconic familyowned business is in a world of hurt. This is the worst. This is the worst. Were doing everything we can to survive this. Owner erin burk has cut 80 of her staff. More than 30 employees laid off. This is not how we want to end this. Burk tried to apply for a loan under the Paycheck Protection Program but couldnt. The computer was grid locked. You couldnt get through. It froze. There was no way in. Five days later, her application was accepted, but her loan still not approved. So far in april, business is 90 down. Its even worse for joe field, owner of a concordbased comic bookstore who we profiled last week. In lost sales at this point were approaching 1,000. 17 days after filing for a loan, wells fargo told him were not ready to open the applica
He fingerprints services of america in craig and was a member of the board of trustees for the chabot las piscinas Community College district. He word Council Member marc salinas knew him for 20 years. Salinas is chair of the friends of Chabot College foundation be really walk the walk and talked the talk when it came to. Equity at in california Community Colleges. He supported. Students to the very end belly mix men says she misses her husband and supports an investigation into gateway. The Alameda County District Attorneys Office is looking into it night. I dont know, but its when reached over the phone a gateway manager telling kron 4 that their nurses are putting their lives on the line for their patients and that the negative perception of their operation is unfair felipe should all kron 4 news. The pandemic is infected dozens of Homeless People at the m a c south homeless shelter in San Francisco, one city supervisor says that could have been prevented for weeks he says hes been
Aggressive strategy is working to battle continues, but the data suggested nationwide we have passed. The peak horn new cases. Today President Trump says guidelines to reopen the country are coming tomorrow afternoon. Thank you for joining us tonight at 8 oclock im grant lotus. And im Vicki Liviakis this as the president signals america might be past the pandemic peak. But despite the bending of the National Curve different areas are on different timelines today, los angeles reported record deaths and in new york your now required to wear a mask or Face Covering while in public. Meanwhile. Were up to 5600 confirmed cases of covid19 and today, San Francisco county reported. 2 new deaths in 26 2 cases, Alameda County reporting 13 new deaths today to go along with 74 new cases, Contra Costa County 2 additional deaths 15 new cases, 5 more people have died in Santa Clara County where there are 127 new cases and in Solano County there is one new case and tonight there are more than 2 million
Peak horn new cases, President Trump signaling america may be past the pandemic peak as lindseys is plans to reopen the country are coming on thursday, were going to be announcing. Guidelines. And well be talking about various states. And its very exciting. Despite the bending of the national curse different sponsor on different timelines los angeles has seen record deaths for a second straight day and is planning on banning concerts and sports until 2021, its difficult to imagine us getting together in the thousands anytime soon in new york, a new executive order for situations where people can maintain social distancing you must wear a mask. Or. For the tract of and nearby massachusetts passed more than 1000 deaths on the same day they mark the 7th anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing just like were stronger after the marathon in 2013 i will be a strong the city after the coronavirus in 2020 in washington, im karen caifa. The irs released another wave of stimulus checks today a