05 00am every day for a month. Restaurants will be allowed to offer takeout after 10 00pm and essential businesses like grocery and drug stores can stay open after hours. Residents will also be allowed to go for a perform other routine activities take the dog out for instance, as of now the order is set to expire at 05 00am on december 21st Alameda County is one of the local counties affected by this curfew and that is where we find kron fours gayle ong who joins us live scale. How are people there reacting to these new restrictions. Like grand im here in downtown pleasanton where you can see quiet at this hour restaurants and bars already closed early because of the pandemic so Health Officials would be happy to see its to hear no lingering crowds. Health experts say this curfew is definitely part of the Infectious Disease, a Public Health tool box as is geared towards restricting large crowds people outside are households. Starting saturday people who are not on essential errands mus
It this morning and that is the return of some fog its not as widespread as it was yesterday but it certainly presents and it certainly could slow you down in a few areas obviously not seeing much of that as you are looking outside from your seat church tower cam right here skies are nice and clear looking out over San Francisco, lets get a look at where we are seeing some of that fog most of it is low lying cloud cover and it isnt really interrupting much of your visibility. So this is a big improvement as far as visibility goes as compared to this time yesterday this low gray is not going to last for long and what were going to see is some increase clearing later on today and that means daytime highs even a little bit warmer than they were yesterday. This morning, our temperatures are actually a bit cooler than they were to start yesterday look at some of these 30s weve got the map for areas like dublin on up through nevado san anselmo napa say alina fairfield petaluma and santa rosa
Is where you want to be. The Positivity Rate in the last 2 weeks has increased by 51 hospitalizations are up 81 icu admissions up 57 state Health Officials say current data shows about 12 of cases end up in the hospital, some 2 to 3 weeks after you get covid in the last 24 hours the state has recorded more than 15,000 new cases and here in the bay area, no counties move to the more restrictive tears at moran. And San Francisco in san mateo counties they remained in the substantial red tier the rest of the bay area state in the most restrictive purple tier which is under a limited stay at home curfew until december but Health Officials in San Francisco say the county will likely be moving into that most restrictive widespread purple tier in the coming days kron fours dan kerman joins us live from city hall with the latest dan. Thats right cases and hospitalizations still out of control maybe not moving as fast as they expected meaning, thats why were still in the red tier, but theyre ex
Pandemic thank you so much for joining us on this friday right here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman it was during a press Conference Today that mayor london breed announced covid19 hospitalizations are up in the city, causing city leaders to take action and slowdown reopenings some services that were scheduled to increase capacity to 50 . Instead will remain at 25 capacity. Kron fours dan kerman is live for us now in San Francisco is at city hall this afternoon with all the details good afternoon. Dan. Good afternoon just in the main thing to keep in mind is nothing is going backwards. Its just not expanding in San Francisco is saying that they knew this was always a possibility, especially as we get more into the winter in the fall that rates would be going up. But theyre putting the word out to people that now is the time to buckle down and continue to do with San Francisco has been doing and as a result city leaders are doing the same and putting a pause on future reopening.
The city has always been cautious. This is another instance. Absolutely you know theyre saying that San Francisco still is doing better related to covid that most major American Cities but indicators show that things are lessening up a little bit loosening up a little bit and things are going a little bit in the wrong direction before things get way out of control city leaders want to put in a pause. We will have to do as a result is on some of our reopening efforts that we had planned for next week at an online briefing friday, San Francisco mayor london breed announced the San Francisco is in a good place with the covid Positivity Rate below one hospitalizations have jumped from 23 to 37 in just a week. And the case rate is up 25 and as a result, the city is putting a pause on expanded reopening plans set for next week what will remain closed indoor pools bowling alleys locker rooms and showers at Fitness Centers also a planned expansion of indoor activity from 25 capacity to 50 capa