Bay area counties are beginning to shut down before the official order from the state, local orders in santa clara, contra costa and 7 so counties it 10 00 tonight, in berkeley and alameda county, the shutdown order goes into effect at midnight. Marin county, restrictions in place on tuesday at noon. The orders are expected to remain in effect until january 4. It bands all indoor and Outdoor Dining but restaurant takeout orders are still allowed bars and wineries have to close along with hair and nail salons, people are being told to avoid all gatherings with anyone outside of their immediate households. More than 30,000 new confirmed cases yesterday in california, the highest one day total yet, and 5000 more than the previous day, statewide the number of deaths is close to 19,000 and the Positivity Rate has it 10 . The latest shutdowns, is a huge blow to many businesses that are already struggling, they are just plain frustrated and scared, many Business Owners told rob that today, he
Stay at home orders are now in effect for for bay area counties at San Francisco santa clara contra costa and alameda counties are in counties stay at home order will go into Effect Tomorrow at noon. The order will be in place until january 4th as of now Sonoma Napa Solano and san mateo counties are not planning to go into a stay at home order until their icu bed capacity falls below that 15 threshold that state home order does mean personal Services Like hair salons and barbershops can no longer operate restaurants can only offer takeout or delivery means Outdoor Dining is out of the picture. It also affects indoor gyms drivein gatherings outdoor playgrounds Entertainment Centers zoos and museums open airbuss and boat operators all of these businesses must now close we begin our coverage of these shutdowns in the south bay. The new more restrictive health order. In Santa Clara County will no doubt take some getting used to in terms of whats allowed and whats not were going to check in
See moraine county is the only bay area county outside the purple tier and still in the red there is a flurry of speculation about what the new stay at home order restrictions will look like ground force dan kerman talk to medical experts tonight about that as well as how it might help slow the surge that were dealing with an joins us now dan. Well medical experts seem to agree that some sort of a rollback is necessary, especially to put off that overcrowding of hospitals to the point where there might not be any hospital beds left in 2 weeks in the bay area. They also talk about various levels of a stay at home order it does not necessarily have to be the draconian one we saw in spring, but it could be something more limited like what were seeing now in Santa Clara County. One version of a stay at home order could look like this abandoned streets like we saw back in the spring. But while affective on slowing the spread of covid19 his Economic Impacts could prevent the state from repea
More than 19,000 californians have lost their lives to coronavirus and in the south bay there are new fears that hospitals in areas hit hardest by the virus are running low on icu beds and could reach capacity by mid december at same time officials reported some progress in planning for the arrival in distribution of the vaccine. Kron fours rob fladeboe has more on this live from san jose rob. And thats right ken and pam a county Health Officials at a briefing here at the Government Center today offered very few specifics, but they did say that they now have submitted their a vaccination protocol, the Distribution Plan to the state of california has required at the same time though they say they are quote extremely worried about the rising tide of hospitalizations and they are encouraging people to more fully cooperate with the new restrictions imposed this last weekend. Heres more. The answer i have for you today is that that that number is evolving Santa Clara County Health Officials
Everybody thanks for being here on kron 4 news at 9 im grant lotus and im justine waltman in for vicki tonight. Now Assemblymember Phil ting and other members of a San Francisco delegation are calling on superintendents in their districts. To reopen schools as soon as possible this is new coronavirus cases reach new heights in the last 24 hours. The country has reported more than 195,000 new covid cases and close to a 100,000 patients are currently in the hospital because of covid this is according to the covid tracking project in california nearly 21,000 new cases were reported in a single day. This is the most new cases recorded in a single day in the state since the pandemic started california has recorded more than a million total cases so far. In the bay area more than 153,000 cases have been recorded and nearly 2000 people have died. And despite a surge in infections, a San Francisco delegation has now sent letters to several School Districts in the bay area demanding that school