Has now passed 20,000 confirmed cases and more than 550 people in this state have died. These numbers are according to the Johns Hopkins global coronavirus tracker so is the coronavirus pandemic based on what some are saying still as bad as we think one bay area doctors weighing in on how the situation is in fact improving because of the precautions that were taken early on. And now we can continue to move in the right direction kron 4 dan thorn reports from walnut creek. It appears theres been progress in the bay areas fight against covid19 there has been the possibility of seeing deaths in case is surging but early actions taken by local Health Officials. Seem to be working we are in a better place than weve not been says social distancing shelter a everything thats been done in our communities to prevent the spread of coronavirus doctor Michael Stacey with Lifelong Medical care says being in this position is obviously a good thing. Our hospitals are not being overwhelmed and testing
Construction sites. Sergeant lochner says theres also been complaints about gathering in parks and if police see any large crowds not practicing physical distancing. Theyll be sent home with the warning as of thursday Sonoma County has more than 100 confirmed kopan 19 cases weve done nearly 3,010 s. And this time in this Facebook Live county Public Health Officials Say while the numbers increase 52 people have recovered were doing some really intense Contact Tracing. That means that. Were finding out who had contact to our and following them really closely and testing them all people who are symptomatic and people who are it. County Officials Say theyve been prepare for the coronavirus outbreak due to devastating wildfires and Public Safety power shutoff but residents should continue to add here to warnings lasting police want to do is issue a citation some nurse at lot would rather risk it and leave their businesses open risk a warning or citation just so they can try to to still make
So really a huge reduction obviously nobody should really be getting their own. But there are those who we need we need to get our groceries and things we need to stock up also essential workers like doctors Nurses Health care workers. Those who are working in restaurants keeping us fed. Those are the people who depend on this and now holding a transit is picking up passengers who usually right mean each helping out the Transit Agency during this coronavirus pandemic as you reason that they we do service on because a lot of operators are state polls due to coronavirus concerns now we have a map of the new can really get a good look at how its going to be running there will be service to the financial district weekdays between the Golden Gate Bridge to walmart to Fishermans Wharf and levis plaza their service to the Civic Center Area past their daily between Golden Gate Bridge and the Salesforce Transit Center boulevard near east to boulevard man mess and mission streets and you can pay
As going to the parks many parks actually are shut down and my colleague Sarah Stinson will have a little bit more on that and just a few moments but a lot of people are still walking past the barriers, the fences and enjoying the parks and obviously getting too many of those remote parks, they have to drive in moving forward. You will be issued and take it were not sure whats going to happen if you get repeated tickets. But they obviously want to crack down on that especially since a lot of officials are praising the bay area for doing such a great job with flattening the curve a lot of people are not and we saw this a couple of weeks ago where Governor Newsome he saw our footage and many other news footage of people flocking to the beaches and he told people to grow up and if theyre not growing up moving forward they will pay up. I cant believe at this point theyre still not listening you dont want that ticket thank you will we appreciate well as the u. S. Death toll from the coronav
Morning. Thats because warnings are not being listened to by so many people so after they ignore the warnings what do you do play you start fining people a few of them are in county sheriffs department. They will start issuing fines of 100 starting 1159 last night so its a new law on the books and this will go on for several weeks because they know that a lot of people are ignoring the shelterinplace especially. Given that this sundays Easter Sunday was so many people coming out to parks. Like this one they know that to come out to the parks oftentimes they have to drive and park their cars so there will be many locations where they know people historically park their cars they will put signs out they say no parking and when they do the enforcement they will issue a ticket a 100 theyve been trying to do this marty for the past week or so, but there have been warnings and thousands of tickets have been written warning tickets and theyre done with adam that mayor the governor Governor Ne