Bernard shows us many may be suffering from covid messaging fatigue. Inside or outside . In. Reporter there is a busy lunch crowd at the tavern in downtown napa. This longtime eatery has went with the punches and restrictions brought on by covid. Gm john crane says finally, his customers are coming back. We just had our best week. Our best covid week so far ended on sunday. Reporter but that could change. Instead of going in the right direction, new covid cases county wide are spiking. Going backwards at an alarming rate. We saw our case rate more than double over the weekend with 118 new cases in 72 hours. We also saw our hospitalizations double. We now stand at 12. Reporter thats the highest weekend total ever. The spike could send napa county back two steps to purple as soon as next week. The states most restrictive tier. Purple tier would be a temporary closure until things got better. Reporter thats not good. Not good. Reporter it would mean no outdoor dining. They only have four
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.
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Reporter yeah, hi, kristen. Were actually at Harvest Park Middle School here in pleasanton. This scene behind me really pretty typical of what weve seen all day at several different polling locations. It looks like its slow, but theres actually been a steady stream of folks mostly dropping off their mailin ballots. Some activity inside. But the fact that it looks kind of slow is really no indication of how busy it is in terms of people getting out to vote early. Lets have you take your ballot card, please. Reporter call it lastminute early voting. Yet another new phenomenon around the historic election of 2020. An election where in the east bay 60 plus of the electorate has already cast their ballots with still a little more than 24 hours to go. Once the word got out they could come into the warriors old training facility, we got a lot more people. Like to take pictures of things they see and live their memories. So thats nice. But the best part is its bringing people in to vote. Repor
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