Watching kron 4 news at 9. Now at 9 a steady drop in coronavirus cases across the state has cleared the way in 9 counties for the wider reopening of businesses and that includes most of the bay area good evening, everybody thanks for being here at 9 oclock, im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis alameda. San mateo and solano counties received the green light to move forward with reopening. Those counties were added to the red or second tier of the states colorcoded for tier ranking system. This category means that there were 4 to 7 daily new cases per 100,000 residents or a 5 to 8 Positivity Rate with the addition of these counties every bay area county is now in the red tier except for contra costa and sonoma counties but contra costas Health Director says they are on track to enter the red tier next week. And as more businesses reopen a Northern California private School System run by the diocese of sacramento has applied for a waiver to allow in Person Instruction in Solano County as
Thanks for joining us on kron 4 news at 3 im noelle bellow just over 6 months since shelterinplace orders began california is seeing widespread improvement. An infection levels at the same time the nation and california are about to mark some grim milestones in the pandemic the United States is on the brink of reaching 200,000 deaths in the coronavirus pandemic right now there are little more than 199,743 deaths and more than 6 million cases have been reported across the country here at home that grim nationwide milestone comes as california and statewide covid19 numbers continue to improve governor Gavin Newsome provided an update this afternoon. He says the state has averaged about 3400 cases over a sevenday period. The latest numbers showing the low that with just under 3300 cases reported yesterday. Now the governor says on average theyre conducting more than 100,000 tests a day and with the number of testing going up the Positivity Rate is going down over the last 7 days weve have
Difference in death rates between the 2 will shock you tonight, San Francisco has recorded 99 covid related deaths while new york city has recorded close to 24,000 covid related deaths. Earlier this evening. I talked with doctor bob wachter chair of the department of medicine over at ucs us who says the 2 main reasons for our lower numbers is good leadership and good citizenship. Doctor wachter says people have been diligent about Wearing Masks for the most part he also says that shutting down the city as early as we did prevented our Hospital System from becoming has overwhelmed as new yorks was. But it is important to remember that its not this is not the time to become complacent and let your guard down doctor wachter says despite the lower numbers in San Francisco, we could still see a spike. So theres nothing about the virus that has changed from march to now it is every bit as capable of causing infections, your chances of dying if you get the virus is a little bit lower now than
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Youre watching kron 4 news at 10 triage right now words like just utter devastation, San Franciscos once vibrant nightlife is crippled for now Business Owners are desperately searching for. Creative ways to try to reopen once they are given the green light. Thanks for joining us at 10, im ken wayne, im pam moore city leaders and night live operators met virtually last night for a summit. To talk about the challenges ahead and some possible options for sale of the sack is live tonight in the city with what could be ahead for bars and entertainment venues. Taylor. Well those concert and event venues will be the last to reopen according to the governors reopening a road map and for them to even make it to that point theyre going to need other ways to operate so some of those ideas toss around were allowing in nightlife venues to host outdoor shows in concerts in city parks and now there excuse me and while their indoor facilities remain closed or at a cut capacity. The stoning canceling s