From the bay areas local news station. Watching kron 4 news. With Contra Costa County back in the most restrictive purple covid tier, the. Countys Coronavirus Task force is reminding businesses to follow Health Orders to try to prevent the spread of the virus. As we say good evening welcome into kron 4 news at night everybody im grant lotus and im Vicki Liviakis as kron fours gayle ong reports for us tonight, the county has received over 100. Covid related complaints in just the past 10 days she joins us now live in walnut creek with some details on this scale. The task force has been responding to complaints since midmarch and so far theyve received a total of 900 covid related complaints rather and theyve been educating businesses but theyre still rising cases. Prompting additional restrictions. A lot of people were seen as a people not wearing their mask. When theyre at the business. Or to employees of a business not wearing a mask and that is part of the reason why Contra Costa Cou
Day. Ktvus Jana Katsuyama is here with the pfizer results in the race to get vaccines to people. Reporter one interesting point is pfizer says their data showed basically the vaccine was 94 effective with older adults and had no serious side effects. Now the fda has an Advisory Panel on standby to review and publicly debate the data in early december. As president elect joe biden held a briefing with healthcare workers wednesday, the nations ninemonth battle with the coronavirus show the emotional toll. One nurse tearing up along with the president elect. The hardship and heartbreak on the front lines, now seeing some hope. On wednesday pfizer announced new test results from their vaccine candidate shows a 95 efficacy rate overall, despite the rest timeline. The nations top Infectious Disease expert said in a call this week that he is confident the vaccines will be safe. The data then goes to the fda , to career scientists who have no political obligation to anyone. Then they go to an
Starting today. Like much of the bay area, that county to is now in the most restrictive purple tier for coronavirus cases. Ktvus allie rasmus explains what the changes mean. Reporter a sign on the door of the montclair Fitness Center in oakland explained to customers they are closed to comply with county health orders. The owner says she has been lucky enough to keep her business afloat with online and outdoor classes. We know a lot of businesses are suffering because they dont have an outdoor option and honestly, i dont know that if this continues if we will be able to keep up what we are doing. Reporter at restaurants like the crcpe pan on piedmont avenue, it is back to serving tables outside only, no more Indoor Dining allowed. Movie theaters, houses of worship, and museums can only operate outdoors in Alameda County. I would like if we could open up and participate in real life again but i think that it is really important right now that we all participate in keeping the community
City leaders encourage everybody to get tested tonight. There is a catch. Thanks for joining us. Everybody at 10 im Vicki Liviakis and im grant lotus some people say everybody get tested and then its ok if everybody congregate but there is a testing shortage and city leaders tonight are asking people not to use these government operated covid testing sites. Before their thanksgiving travel or gathering plans. They say these resources are for essential workers at people who have symptoms or believe they were exposed to covid yeah, one of those government operated sites is on the embarcadero and thats where we find kron 4 Taylor Bisacky she joins us now live with more. About the citys message. Sign here behind me says appointment only and at last check appointments here are booked up through december second at put that in perspective this site typically tests about 1700 people a day so this is obviously raising concerns for the people that need the tests most the city is now emphasizing
Set a flag on fire, and patrons and an employee at a restaurant right across the street from the Police Department were harassed. One person pepper sprayed by a demonstrator and no arrests were made. We were eating our food, they started flashing lights in our eyes, screaming at us, there were no police, nothing. And were literally at the police station. We had nonuniformed officers watching from a distance. And had we seen assaultive behavior or Public Safety issues we would have jumped in right away. We were not aware of the assaultive behavior until after the fact. There was no order for officers to stand down. Supervisors made a decision not to intervene based on the circumstances of the crimes being committed. Graffiti and vandalism. He agrees with the call but says they are making changes moving forward. If this group comes back or any groups come back into town with the intent to vandalize or commit criminal behavior, we have every intention of taking action and holing them acco