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
Cases and one death Solano County has 61 cases and one death napa county has 20 cases and one death. I think its going to be coming out with the new regulations on that and if people want to abide by and frankly i dont think you could i dont think theyll be mandatory because some people dont want to do that. President trump says the white house will soon be releasing nationwide recommendations on wearing face masks, this comes as Health Officials across the bay area are now advising everyone to cover their faces when in public. We want to get more on this now from kron 4 Sarah Stinson who is live in San Francisco. Hi sarah good morning. Good morning. Marty thats right Health Officials across the board really in the bay area are recommending that cover your face not only to protect yourself from those who may be infected, but you could be infected in could be asymptomatic meaning youre not showing much those symptoms and what theyre saying is they dont want you to go out and buy these l
Counties. Theyre recommending wearing something to cover your face whenever you leave the house for essential travel. Now this comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the bay area had 2800. Heres a breakdown of those numbers county by county take a look at your screen. Santa clara county has. Over 1000 cases now with 36 deaths, 7 tail counties reporting 453 cases and 10 deaths, San Francisco reporting 450 cases, 7 deaths and the east bay Alameda County is up to 396 cases and 9 deaths. Contra costa has 276 cases 3 people have died there moraine county has a 118 cases and 6 staff sonoma counties up to 95 cases with one death Solano County stands at 61 reported cases with one death and that the county has 20 cases and one death. I think the going to be coming out with the new regulations on that and if people want to abide by and frankly i dont think you could i dont think theyll be mandatory because some people dont want to do that. President trump says the white house will
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Countries in asia thought they turned the tide are now saying a 2nd wave of cases local governments are doing to prevent clusters of infections popping up. And the threat to some of the worlds most Vulnerable People those who are homeless families living on the streets in new delhi say no ones told them how to protect themselves. The coronavirus endemic is exacting an increasingly heavy toll on the worlds worst affected country italy there were almost 800 more deaths and 6500 new infections in one day and cases globally have gone beyond 300000 according to a tally by Johns Hopkins university or in chalons begins our coverage. This military convoy in northern italy is carrying a grim cargo 30 coffins with the bodies of 30 coronavirus victims headed to a small village for christian because there are too many coded 19 dead in the nearby city of bergen and with italy recording its deadliest day of the outbreak yet with another nearly 800 deaths that could be more convoys like this needed.