On her own. Reporter like many other Family Members, barbara said she found out about the outbreak on the news. Six seniors have died from the virus. 29 others have tested positive. 24 Staff Members also infected. Right now shes comfortable. Shes good. Shes not showing symptoms. Reporter jaime patino, a councilmember, has a grandmother who lives here. He checked on her through the windo they have enough people working today, they tell u these nursing assistants tell me a Staffing Agency sent them here toda yesterday, two nursing a ides said they were urged to come back to work even though theyve tested positive. Theyre currently working to develop a new policy that would allow asymptomatic workers to work with positive residents. Contra costa county already has a similar policy in place. If in extreme cases, if staffing is extremely limited and every possible option has been exhausted, then the employer can make a request of Public Health. Reporter the county says it sent a taskforce t
Hayward, workers wore homemade masks but target comiin thiweek also ems appear to have an issue with paper mask and back at the mcdonalds, they also had masks and gloves. Lets go reporter jeremy carr is not as lucky. He works at jiffy lube and says employers are failing their own workers. Can get to a restaurant and get this. And this is their idea to keep us safe . Thats not all right, man. Reporter its taken some time but lawmakers are finally working on a bill to provide food and retail employees sick pay and protection from retaliation for calling in sick at the end da tforests or ermaking a killing right now like walmart and target. Theyre never going to give anymore than they have t and mcdonalds released a statement saying we are disappointed by todays activities as they do not represent the feedback we are hearing from the majority of our employees across the country where 99 of our drive thrus are open to serve the Health Care Workers on the front line the way, if you d abt wn
Right now, in the kpix news at 7 00, and urs, another death at an east bay nursing home. Good evening, im elizabeth cook. A total of seven senior residents have now died at the Gateway Center in hayward. Kpix 5 talked to some anxious Family Members who say they have been left in the dark. The number of deaths has gone up. The number of positive cases also went up. What hasnt changed, Family Members feeling helpless. She called repeatedly, but after no response, barbara came Staff Members wouldnt even talk to her through the glass door. Im not sure if i need a warrant to go in there or what i need to do. Her mother is a patient. At a skimmed nursing facility inca she needs. Shes an amputee. She cant get up out of the bed to go to the bathroom on her own. Chic she found out about the outbreak on the news. So far seven seniors died from the virus. 33 others have tested positive. 25 Staff Members also infected. Right now shes comfortable. Shes good. Shes not showing symptoms. So were hopin
Announcer next, Governor Phil Murphy gives an update on the coronavirus update with state health officials. Speaking from new wark, this is n hour and a half. Governor murphy thank you. Sorry for being a few minutes late. I want to say good afternoon to everybody. Our thanks to Rutgers Newark for allowing us to use their space for todays briefings. So to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. Tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2 00 p. M. At the war memorial. And so well be trying to give you at least one days advanced notice as to where you will find us. As this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no introduction the director of the partment of health, judy persikeli. And colonel pat callahan and we are joined again and i welcome him back to pats left by the departments of Health Communicable disease medical dr. Edward leftshif. Good to have you back. Before we get to the latest testing results, ive got a few announcements and updates on what weve
I want to say good afternoon to everybody. Our thanks to Rutgers Newark for allowing us to use their space for todays briefings. So to nancy cantor and her whole team a big shoutout and a big thanks. Tomorrow, we will be in trenton at 2 00 p. M. At the war memorial. And so well be trying to give you at least one days advanced notice as to where you will find us. As this now routine, i am joined by the woman who needs no introduction the director of the partment of health, judy persikeli. And colonel pat callahan and we are joined again and i welcome him back to pats left by the departments of Health Communicable disease medical dr. Edward leftshif. Good to have you back. Before we get to the latest testing results, ive got a few announcements and updates on what weve been up to. Before i do that, i want to give Sheila Oliver a shoutout who is running the d. C. A. As fast as furiously as ever before, the Lieutenant Governor and i made a decision some number of days ago that we would div