Americans during this coronavirus pandemic social dense distancing is very important in our daily lives in no different here thats why we are so far apart to maintthasocial distance were practicing the guidelines to the centers for Disease Control recommends. And we encourage you to do the same thing. Tonight around the world more than 8,800 people have died from the coronavirus is with more than 218,000 cases reported globally. There are more than 9,300 cases in the United States with the death toll up to 150 in california, the total number of cases up his up to 865 with 16 deaths. These tallies come from Johns Hopkins Medical Center and we have that centers interactive map on our website you can see it at kron 4 dot com. As the outbreak grows so do the questions about how long this will continue to affect our day to day lives particularly for families how are schools responding now that campuses could be closed for the rest of the summer. Well boys grant lotus is here to explain what
This crisis headon and to address the needs of our most vulnerable on the streets and the sidewalks 50 Million Dollars on top of that for hotel motel conversions and heres the thinking. Were running models and ill just give you. One of those models for the purpose of full transparency over the next 8 week period. We have modeled then of the 108,000 unsheltered californians that are out on the streets. If you had an attack rate. Of about 56 . Youre looking at 60 plus 1000 individuals that may. Have covid 19 that creates a deep. Point of anxiety for the existing population but moreover for our Health Care Delivery system our capacity to move people in and out of the shelter safely without contacting other people in putting them at risk as well. So become good because governor Gavin Newsome expect 60,000 Homeless People to contract the coronavirus in the next 8 weeks. He is also preparing more than 1300 trailers that he just bought today and will install them across the state live in the
You heard at the top will close for 3 weeks amid the coronavirus pandemic were covering every angle of the outbreak governor Gavin Newsoms executive order to slow the spread of the virus and in the south bay for firefighters have tested positive for covid 19 well have more. On the firefighters now in quarantine 50 of them, well have that in just a few moments, but we want to go to kron fours justine waltman. Who has more on the San Francisco School Closures just well the entire San Francisco Unified School District will shut down on monday and this is what the district can deal th the ever evolving coronavirus. What i want to get to right now is some of the information we got from the School District because ty had this emergency meeting earlier this afternoon and then came out with this decision late this afternoon. The decision the district decided instead of shutting down schools, one by one as cases popped up shutting down the entire district at once it gives them a chance to get a
Watching kron 4 news. All of that what social distancing keep away its going to have no place to go. The National Broadcast to fight the coronavirus pandemic the white house officially unveil the coronavirus messaging campaign today. Thanks for joining us at 10, im ken wayne and i pale more as the president said we are practicing social distancing here kron 4 ken and i are. Left standing and sitting more than 6 feet apart maybe 10 feet apart and. Theres a lot of lauras way on the other side of the room and then all the way on that side of the room is where reynolds standing by as well so were trying to do our part to make sure that we all stay healthy so that we can bring you the news each night and keep you informed on whats going on the president s message comes as major relief measures are moving forward in the Nations Capital to try and address the needs of the nation earlier today, the president did sign into law a billion bipartisan Coronavirus Relief package. The deal includes p
To try to keep students out for 3 weeks and keep them safe. This affects 10s of thousands of student passports justine waltman joins us live now from district headquarters she has details on what else was announced today justine. Well pam and ken the decision to close down schools throughout the San Francisco Unified School District came after an emergency meeting today, the district saying. What they didnt want to do was have to close schools, one by one as possible. Coronavirus cases popped up and said they decided to shut down the entire district completely so they can get a handle on the situation. Now this closure will last for 3 weeks its for pre k through 12th grade and that starts on monday. 2 weeks of this closure already scheduled for classes. The other was spring break. So thats the total the 3 weeks. So school then start again on april 6 all Things Considered as the situation is ever changing now at this time there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in the districts scho