The pandemic. Theres no in class instruction unless the county that the school has located in has seen 14 days of declining covid cases. Now, this applies to public and k12 Public Schools. This would mandate all students in grades three through 12 to use the masks when on the campus. They say that they estimate that under the guidance about 90 of the California Public School Students will have to start the school year with the distanced learning. Troy flint with the School Board Says that by laying out the guidelines, the governor is taking pressure off of the states 1,000 School Districts to make these decisions. Were hungry for more guidance about what is essentially a Public Health issue. Theres so many contingencies that are beyond the capacity of the School Boards to deal with. Now, other rules expected to be announced today including enforcing a school with in class instruction to switch back to Distance Learning if more than 5 of temps and staff test positive for covid. The Scho
In and sit down for a meal. This was the scene here less than an hour ago, a couple of customers sat down for breakfast on the outside patio. The owner tells us to maintain six feet of social distance inside, he had to remove tables. Out back, every other table has been converted into a busing station, since those tables are fixed in place, you cant remove them. At buttercream bakery and diner, further in downtown, that restaurant is putting up plastic partitions between tables and the diner counter for when theyre able to resume inside dining. At graces table, chef pando also removed tables, from 22 down to 11. But hes not worried about customer capacity forcing him to shut down. He says he has flexibility with his staffing and hell make this work no matter what. Even though were ready, is our Community Ready to support us . Thats going to be a little bit of a learning curve. What is going to come out of all this . How long is it going to be able to be full for 25 capacity . Everyone
8th state to reach the 1000 mark following new york, new jersey michigan, louisiana, massachusetts, illinois and connecticut, 29,198 people are infected in the United States more than 37,000 deaths with close to 702,000 cases and across the globe more than 154,000 people have lost their lives and more than 2 Million People have the virus here in the bay area there are more than 6,000 cases and a 196 reported deaths and are you stream you can see how the numbers break down county by county Santa Clara County still leads the bay area with 73 deaths. And more than 1800 cases. Alameda county has 40 deaths 28 deaths in San Mateo County 20 in San Francisco. Back to our top story tonight, a daly city fathers out of the hospital after battling covid19 for almost a month. His Community Came together today to celebrate his victory. Kron fours dan thorn was there for the event. Showered with applause ken lewis taking in the fresh air while taking his first steps out of the hospital. Its the end o
Bay area take a look at your screen there are more than 6,000 cases and a 196 steps you can see those numbers broken down for your county by county check out Santa Clara County staffs at 73 and more than 1800 cases you can also see that these numbers are on our website kron 4 dot com. So if you want to look at your specific county just check it out on our website. Now lets get to our top stories this saturday morning as people are now required to wear a mask of some form or a facial covering in most bay area counties. 6 counties are now requiring everyone wear a covering of some sort when theyre outside they are San Francisco, san Mateo Alameda contra costa marin and sonoma counties. Santa clara county also urging residents to wear a mask, but at this point thats not an order. Now heres why its so important to wear a face mask in public take a look at this laser light experiment shows how droplets from coughing sneezing and talking can spread the virus on the left you see the droplets
And a new face. Right, the commissioner of the department of Public Health. Judy, good afternoon. Ed lifshitz. Dr. Police colonel pat callahan, and we are also joined by the commissioner of the department of Environmental Protection, catherine mccabe, to my left. Great to have you. Covid 19 is ao wholeofgovernment endeavor. Lots of departments have key noes to play, and dep is exception. Commissioner mckee will talk about her departments role. We will go right to the numbers and then feel in details from their. There. We are reporting an additional 2100 96 positive test results. Our statewide count stands at 18,696. Positive test results since yesterday. 696 in total. We continue to lose members of our new jersey family to covid19 complications. This does not get any easier. Since yesterday, another 69 residents have died. 267,total net stands at each of them a precious life lost from our new jersey family. Taking that number, which is a big one, and putting a face to it, and a couple