He says the new york city area and other areas are more complicated due to the need for coordination with other neighboring states. The briefing is almost an hour. Gov. Cuomo that afternoon, technically. Happy sunday. Today is day 57. It feels like more, but it is only day 57. It feels like 57 years. News today on the numbers is relatively good. The descent continues and that is a good starting place. We are back to where we were on march 31, before we started this dramatic increase in the number of cases. We are still watching big questions. How fast is that number continue to go down . First, does that number continue to go down . That would be a nightmare if it picks up. And how fast does it come down and how low does it go . Before we started this, you had a couple hundred cases. When did we get back to a couple hundred new cases going in . The overall hospitalization rate is down. Is number of intubations down. Even the number of new covid cases is down. Still not good, still 1000
Pandemic. Here in the bay area, there were more than 6900 cases and 239 deaths. And yesterday, the governor said more testing needs to be done until we considered lifting the shelter in place. The governor is about to speak. Lead by the extraordinary leadership, the by approximate the governor of illinois. 21 out of the 24 largest student loan servicers in the state of california have agreed to a 90day foreperson on student loan debt. Impacting over 1. 1 californians with loan debt. No burden now placed on them over the next 90 days. No impact to their credit rating. No late fees or fines and actual support on terms of getting new payment plans in place for future process. I want to the 24 or 24 23 or 24 service for their willingness to step out and help support those that are struggling to pay their student loan debts. The second debt announcement we wanted to make is in relationship to the cares act. Many of you have received checks from the cares act. Some individuals received 1200
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
It is just before sunrise in Golden Gate Park and you are not hallucinating or ranoid park rangers were out in force early but to be blunt this is not any other year. We pushed everybody including media crews to the outer perimeter. Guards turned vehicles around. Only foot and bicycle traffic are around. There is fencing around the entire area. Now back to our top story, governor gavin newsom giving updates. That are not physically in the classroom but we hope and expect our learning every day. The issues of equity, the issues of access and availability of laptops and cmputers, issues of connectivity as it relates to internet and broadband, all of those issues. Particularly under the circumstances made more acute and more foundational in terms of our ability to not just promote the promise of education during this time but to actually deliver on its. I have been very proud of the work that many folks have done from the superintendent of Public Education to the president of the state sc
Particularly under the circumstances made more acute in terms oundational of our ability to not just promote the promise of education but to actually deliver on it. Ive been very proud of the work folks have done from the superintendent of Public Education to the president of school board, linda both of which , are on the phone today but ive also been very blessed by know very well, nd thats my wife, the first partner of the state of california. She, in part sher wip with of my ship with members team, ben cheetah and others, over the working hard last few weeks to build on the announcement we made a few weeks about those 100,000 free has hot spots that google committed to rolling out throughout the state of california and the 4,000 chrome they made available to build on the work that apple has been doing. 800 School Districts, 10,000 ipods that they have donated. Do even more to meet the needs of millions of that simply dont have access. Phones. Been working the shes had good days. Lik