The one behind me sherman school. An example because these schools are in county thats on the governors watch list and now those schools can apply for this were application as well. But they may have to jump through a few more hoops than the other schools. Theyre going to have to have major discussions like public hearings with parents other schools in the county and county Health Officers to see if its a good idea to reopen for in person classes when schools apply for the waiver they have to develop plans for Health Screenings you can see some of the protocols on your screen Contact Tracing physical distancing testing Face Coverings will be required inside schools. The state says schools will need to implement a protocol of an outbreak occurs. And make sure to switch back to Distance Learning and have a plan to switch back to Distance Learning if need be once the waiver application is sent in the state will review decide if an Elementary School should reopen. Officials also gave an up
Reporter Santa Clara County and Alameda County had similar totals but the south bay with 280 new cases and 2 deaths. We are seeing significant challenges. We had an increase of the number of people coming up and testing positive and also had an increase of younger people getting sicker. Reporter Governor Newsom said hes extending the moratorium pass the deadline and chavez said santa clara will follow suit, which is good news for renters, except its being done because the covid situation is getting worse. Robert handia, nbc bay area news. As cases continue to grow, ite who test positive. The average right now over a twoweek period, 7. 4 . The governor said if that gets above 8 , its extremely alarming. If we look at several counties, several are above that. L. A. County, 7. 5 , San Bernardino county, 11. 5 . Compare that with the bay area. Our positive rates are lower. Santa clara at 4 now. San mateo and alameda both hovering around 5 . San francisco with the lowest on this map at 3 .
Wednesday night im Jonathan Mccall as you just heard from governor Gavin Newsome california saw more than 12,000 new cases of covid19 in a 24 hour period. Its the highest number since the pandemic began. California now has more than 409,000 confirmed cases surpassing new york state for the most in all of the United States, new york state though still leads the country with 32,000 covid19 deaths, even though new york state has a population half of californians. Here in the bay area we saw more than a 1000 new cases of covid 1913 new deaths overnight. Tonight local leaders are continuing to call on the public to do their part to keep the virus from spreading. We need people to be responsible to keep their distance from others to avoid gatherings in to wash their hands. San Francisco Mayor london breed now urging folks to continue to Work Together to stop the spread of coronavirus today she announced new ways to make testing for the virus a priority for the city as kron fours michelle kin
Part of the city with the ability to do about 500 tests each day we can slow the spread of covid19. We have occur before. And we must do it again. Lives are at stake. The citys Public Health director grant colfax says its getting harder for people to book appointments and the turnaround times for test results continue to vary anywhere from 3 to 10 days in San Francisco, their goal is to conduct at least 1800 tests per day in the past week theyve exceeded that by averaging more than 3200 a day the new test sites in appointment slots will increase the amount of tests the city is currently averaging by about 45 but mayor breed says shes still upset by the amount of people in the city not taking this seriously im really disappointed because what youre doing when you gather with when youre not wearing your mask, youre making our recovery longer. Youre making it more difficult for people to send their kids back to school in San Francisco, michelle kingston kron 4 news here in the bay area we
California and acss the nation. In washington, d. C. , the senate is working toward a new Coronavirus Relief package, thdr white house ped its demand for a payroll tax cut, which gop lawmakers had opposed, big divisions remain as unemployment nefits are set to expire next weekfor 20 million people. Meanwhile, democrats on capitol hill are championing a 3 trillion relief planhat includes eight. Closer to home, governor gavin newsom announced on tuesday, california recorded mo than ,000 new coronavirus cases, its highest daily total get, cafornia now has the most number of cases in the nation, surpassing new york. Joining us now by skype to discuss this, our political and government correspondent, marisa lagos. With us by skype from palm springs is scott shafer. So, lets start with the national picture, i want to askr you, presidenp has canceled the Republican National convention that was to be held ti jacksonville, that this was not the right time to bring so many people together, he al