Vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. With more from jerusalem here s our correspondent, jon donnison. The official polio vaccination campaign doesn t start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the united nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today in khan younis in the south of gaza. What it s going to involve and get under way as a series of three day, area specific pauses in fighting that both israel and hamas have agreed to. The key words there are area specific, so we re not talking about the formal ceasefire that diplomats have been pushing for weeks and
Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell sent this new report from jerusalem. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a mass immunisation campaign in a combat zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation: i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum worries he ll never be able to walk. He was the first child found to have polio in gaza in 25 years, and it paralysed his leg. Because of the war he wasn t vaccinated and now medical c
Sports. And that means no games at levis stadium. Azenith smith is here with a reaction from the head coach. Reporter the niners next to home games are now out of the question and in the midst of their season the team will have to act fast, their options are to postpone or cancel games or find an alternative location to practice and play. Some options that have been thrown out, the stadium in San Francisco, or maybe the oakland coliseum. The team says they are aware of the new order and working with nfl. In a post game interview this afternoon you can sense the frustration of the 49ers coach who says the team wants nothing more than to stay in their hometown and play at levis stadium. He shared his disappointment finding out yesterday as the team was on the plane heading to los angeles. He also says he is very proud of how his team played today despite the devastating news. It was a very disappointing thing we got yesterday. Our organization has been working their tails off with the co
In the golden state with more than 19,000 deaths. According to the covid tracking project hospitalized patients have doubled from 4,000 on november 12th to more than 8,000 today. Earlier today, San Francisco and san mateo counties joined other bay area counties in the states. Most restrictive reopening tier thats the purple tier, your c theyre that its covering most of the state the only bay area county thats not in the purple tier is marine county but under the purple tier gyms churches and movie theaters will have to operate outdoors were close capacity at retail stores. Right now is limited at 25 restaurants can continue to operate outdoors however counties in the purple tier must follow the states limited stay at home order the curfew which goes into effect every night from 10 00pm until 05 00am the next morning and that stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow night for both San Francisco and san mateo counties tonight there are new concerns about the impact that these late
In the alum rock road neighborhood. Police have confirmed one victim so far their condition has not been released at the same time San Jose Police are also outside of a home on jackson street thats north of the citys downtown in several streets there. Are currently closed as officers are trying to talk to a man who has barricaded himself inside of a home this information is just now coming in to the kron 4 news room working to get more details on both of these situations happening right now in san jose as soon as we get more details. You know we will bring them to you and thank you so much for joining us right here tonight on kron 4 news at 10, im Justine Waldman of Jonathan Mccall our other big story this sunday night california breaking a grim record with more than 8,000 covid19 patients in hospitals all across the golden state. That number doubling from less than just 3 weeks ago when there are roughly 4,000 patients in hospitals on november 12th. The previous record for hospitaliza