How hes working to keep the economy up and running well so many places are shut down during this Health Crisis. Were only as strong as every Community Every county every state. Every american following the guidelines to at t and i can tell by the kurds and as it is today that not every american is following it. A call to action. Thank you for joining us at 8 oclock everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis tonight, there are more than a million confirmed cases of covid19 in the world and were learning about new ways of the virus could possibly be transmitted Health Experts are now saying this new coronavirus could possibly the spread not just by sneezing and coughing. But also just by talking singing or even breathing and now Bay Area Health officials are recommending people wear something to cover their faces according to doctor. Harvey feinberg with the National Academy of sciences. Results of available studies are consistent russell is a ship from the virus just from normal bre
Ong joins us now live with why doctor says, although the number of cases is going up theres a glimmer of hope tonight, gayle. Vicki and grant were told Ucsf Medical Center is stable with 15 to 16 patients in the last week and that other bay area hospitals are also seeing relatively low numbers. Thanks to people sheltering in place. Well before other parts of the country. The orders are heated empty streets in San Francisco crossing market street. We found few people appearing to be essential workers and no traffic an example of why Health Experts say the city is showing signs of flattening the curve to slow down the coronavirus we spoke with doctor Robert Wachter chair of ucsf department of medicine people, San Francisco listen i think they they understood the science and they said this is the right thing to do obviously causes hardships. Doctor wachter says even know the number of cases continues to rise, theres been a slow search and City Hospitals at ucsf so we have had and her 16 p
Parks closed in an effort to their parking lots closed outbreak county by county in because of this on our website, the region and santa clara reduce crowding and maintain county with the most 320, san social distancing. Ktvu. Com and on ktvu facebook with so many people at home and and instagram pages. Just about all other events canceled, people flocked to the francisco 152, a pretty beach and coast and other live in marim county. Recreation areas this weekend. New numbers released a sharp dropoff with 47 in there and you cant even find parking short time ago and Johns Hopkins University Reports more than 49,000 cases nationwide and theres been 600 deaths here in the united states. New york confirmed 25,000 case and 184 deaths and 125 deaths are in new york city. Starting today, new york Health Agencies will begin testing for possible treatments and underway to quickly turn a Convention Center in new york city into a huge Medical Center and yesterday a huge shut down began in new yor
The areas where he worked are now being disinfected. A southwest worker at the airport contacted dan nows and shared these pictures with us. That person says that the airport employees are pretty worried about the sick agent and anyone who worked with him. The airport has given no further information about the man. The number of coronavirus cases keeps increasing with more test results being completed. There are now a total of 1,206 in the bay area and 27 people have died. Marin, napa and Sonoma County reported more cases and five more people died in the bay area yesterday. Four of those people who died are in San Mateo County which has a total of five deaths. Santa clara also reported another deadly infection. Two confirmed cases in mendicino cases and related to highrisk travel and the person is now isolated at home. Lake county is still not reporting any cases. Konsh is moving moving forward with the 2 trillion relief deal. Abc news ines de la cuetaracuett more on the people who are
Countys response. As napa county faces its first covid 19 cases the county says and theyve been prepared. Our priority right now is making sure that were ramping up our staffing in a Facebook Live sunday afternoon deputy county executive Molly Rattigan gave this update to napa county about the quickly escalating Coronavirus Spread you should start to see increases in some of the testing them or us as youve been saying in the last few days here in napa county county officials report as of sunday almost a 100 tests have been completed and at least 30 cases are under investigation. The countys first case was reported in the Morning Hours later a second case confirmed Health Officials say both patients have been isolated one a napa city resident, the other isolated in saint helene a there is no known connection officials wont say their age gender or where the virus was contracted, but are working to trace people who have been in direct contact testing for the virus began last week we are r