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A soft drink bottler’s plans for expansion in Fresno were approved by the Fresno City Council on Thursday. The council unanimously voted to approve a new Coca-Cola distribution plant in south Fresno near the Amazon
 FRESNO â The local transgender community received a historic acknowledgment from Fresno City Council on Thursday with a Transgender Day of Visibility proclamation to occur in Fresno every year on April 8.
Spearheaded by Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission (EOC) LGBTQ+ Resource Center, Trans-e-Motion, and Councilmember Esmeralda Soria, the proclamation serves as a statement that Fresno is committed to making improvements to the lives of the LGBTQ+ community.
Soria said the purpose of the proclamation is â..to elevate the issue to bring visibility to the transgender community because they are a part of Fresnoâ they are Fresno..â The transgender and gender non-conforming communities often suffer from disproportionate rates of violence, inequity, and a lack of health and mental health resources.
Coronavirus update: Fresno death toll sets new record as city weighs shutdown order
Fresno Bee 12/23/2020 Nadia Lopez, The Fresno Bee
Dec. 22 As one of the regions facing the highest increase in coronavirus cases across the state, Fresno County on Monday reported 89 new COVID-19 related deaths, bringing the countywide total to 646 since the pandemic began, according to state data.
The county also added 952 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, pushing the total to 58,568 since March.
December is now Fresno County s deadliest related month tied to the pandemic with about 167 deaths. The previous record was 152 deaths in August.
Frontline healthcare workers at Clinica Sierra Vista in Fresno and Kern counties will be first in line to receive the first doses of Moderna s recently approved coronavirus vaccination sometime this week, the hospital confirmed Monday.