COVID-19 live updates: 7-day positivity rate in CA at 1.2%, state officials say KGO
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact across the world and also in cities across Northern California. The latest number of confirmed cases in the U.S. can be found at the CDC s 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the U.S. page. (The CDC updates the webpage on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.)
Join anchor Kristen Sze for ABC7 s daily interactive newscast about the novel coronavirus outbreak in the Bay Area and other hot topics. You can check here to stream the show Monday-Friday at 3 p.m.
May 8, 2021
COVID-19 live updates: Party blamed for Contra Costa Co. outbreak KGO
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact across the world and also in cities across Northern California. The latest number of confirmed cases in the U.S. can be found at the CDC s 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the U.S. page. (The CDC updates the webpage on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.)
Join anchor Kristen Sze for ABC7 s daily interactive newscast about the novel coronavirus outbreak in the Bay Area and other hot topics. You can check here to stream the show Monday-Friday at 3 p.m.
May 7, 2021
Party blamed for Contra Costa Co. outbreak
Off-campus event sends more than 100 students into quarantine in Walnut Creek
KTVU s Cristina Rendon reports.
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - More than 100 students from an East Bay high school are in quarantine after being exposed to nearly two dozen other students with the coronavirus, school officials confirmed.
Acalanes Union High School District Superintendent John Nickerson said 21 students at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek tested positive for the virus during the last two weeks of April. Contra Costa Health Services said the origin of the outbreak is believed to be related to an off-campus gathering at a private home in mid-April.
The school said there doesn’t appear to have been any on-campus transmission. Teenagers, at least, have the idea that they’re invincible, Las Lomas parent David Coffman said. If I were to draw an analogy, I’d say it’s similar to a teenager that is driving well over the speed limit because they’re invincible.
Coffman said the outbreak is troubling. He’s grateful his 17-year-old daughter opted to continue with distance learning for the rest of the school year. But she had to go on campus this week to take her AP exams. She was more than a little bit nervous, Coffman said. She was very, very concerned about attending the AP test.
21 students at East Bay high school get COVID after attending off-campus event
By KTVU Staff article
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - An East Bay high school is grappling with a COVID outbreak that s infected almost 2 dozen students and forced another 100 into quarantine.
Twenty-one students at Las Lomas High School in Walnut Creek have the virus, John Nickerson, superintendent of Acalanes Union High School District, said.
The explosion in cases was tied to an off-campus event, he said.
Nickerson said the students tested positive in the last two weeks of April. The origin of the cases seems to have been a single off-campus (and non-school) event that the students who tested positive attended or in some cases their siblings attended, he said in a statement. There does not appear to have been any on-campus transmission of COVID-19.