Good evening and thanks so much for joining us. Im dion lim. And im eric thomas. That testing is part of a study to better understand how the virus spreads. Abc 7 News Reporter Cornell Barnard is in San Francisco with the story. Cornell . Reporter yeah, eric, dion, this is all happening in the mission district. Health care workers hope to test as many residents who want to be tested over the next several days. Locals say if it helps stop the spread of coronavirus theyre in. This is not a nice time little germ is out there doing its thing so weve got to stop it. Reporter Patricia Delgado doing her part to help stop covid19. She just got tested. And shell never forget it. The back of the throat, choking you, and then the back of the nose choking you again. Reporter delgado lives in the mission district, where thousands of residents havt several outdoor testing sites for free. Two tests are available, one for covid19, another can covid19 antibodies. The mission is showing some of the high
Safeway stores, a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables on shelves this may be linked to a coronavirus related deaths at one of their Major Distribution Centers kron fours dan thorn talked with shoppers who know to see empty shelves see has more in this report from Pleasant Hill Pleasant Hill. Sent to a shoppers are telling us here they started noticing a shortage of produce on the shelves here about a week ago and we spoke with an employee who works here at the safeway that says that they too started noticing the low stock and it may be possibly connected to an issue that happened at the Tracy Distribution Center safely has confirmed that one of their workers at that center died earlier this week because of complications with coronavirus the company is also acknowledge there is a shortage of staff at their Tracy Distribution Center. But its for quote a variety of reasons they did not explicitly say was because of the covid19 debt in the meantime viewers have been reporting that the prod
First to the east coast, where Health Officials found some reason to hope. Even though new york, new jersey and connecticut all recorded their highest oneday debt poll today. New yorks governor said the rate of hospitalization is slowing other worstcase scenarios and people in need of i see you care have not materialized. Here in california there are also signs the spread of the virus is slowing. Governor newsom said today i see you hospitalizations increased just 2 in the last 24 hours, down from double digit increases last week. California has more than 17,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 452 people have died. And there were celebrations in wuhan, china today ended a the pandemic began. And within hours, 65,000 people have left the city of wuhan. Today the Chinese Government also said there were no new cases of the virus in wuhan and for the First Time Ever there were no new deaths from the coronavirus in china. Now to the increased rate of deaths among black americans in the unit
Condition worsened. Sergio . Reporter yeah, that man is named wilson ma. I have been in contact with the family all day. They are devastated that he died this morning. But they are also trying to focus on their mother. In has siymptoms and now that e miami. These are photos his daughter showed on the south american adventure together. They are both from San Francisco. The ship docked in miami saturday morning but was not allowed to dock in argentina. He started feeling sick early last week and was tested for coronavirus when the captain of the ship arranged for tests to be on board. Ma is one of 12 people who tegsed positive. He was rushed to the hospital yesterday in miami. He was unresponded today. The family posted we are beyond grandfather. But his much time to grieve because their mother also has symptoms and was not taken off the ship until today. A special team loaded theship to assess eight six passengers. The family says the mother was taken off the ship just a few hours ago.
Lets start with maryanne. Tests in by tuesday. Patients. County leaders say local weve seen numerous bay area hospitals have not yet reached Business Owners shift their reporter surge capacity. Businesses to help other businesses. The latest is a pleasanton man. But they are here at the his name is chad snook. Convention center in case they do and we want to point out an important piece of information. He makes yard ad signs. This is not a walkin center. Now hes creating these stay do not attempt to come to the home signs. Convention center of the patient the message is clear. Whos come here must first go to his family stays home. A local hospital, be evaluated now theyre on lawns all over and then transferred by the trivalley. Orders are coming in from all ambulance. What we do now will forever change our tomorrow. Reporting live in santa clara. Over the country. If youre going to buy a so lets do the right thing, today. Nbc bay area news. Thank you. A sad update to a story lets stay