More than 19,000 californians have lost their lives to coronavirus and in the south bay there are new fears that hospitals in areas hit hardest by the virus are running low on icu beds and could reach capacity by mid december at same time officials reported some progress in planning for the arrival in distribution of the vaccine. Kron fours rob fladeboe has more on this live from san jose rob. And thats right ken and pam a county Health Officials at a briefing here at the Government Center today offered very few specifics, but they did say that they now have submitted their a vaccination protocol, the Distribution Plan to the state of california has required at the same time though they say they are quote extremely worried about the rising tide of hospitalizations and they are encouraging people to more fully cooperate with the new restrictions imposed this last weekend. Heres more. The answer i have for you today is that that that number is evolving Santa Clara County Health Officials
States Governor Newsom announcing today a possible stay at home order could be reinstated as coronavirus cases surge, thank you for joining us today at 3 on this monday november 30th, im tahernia 99 of the state could be another under another state home order state leaders are set to decide in the coming days. This will be regions with a concerning hospitalizations and icu capacity weve got our Capitol Bureau reporter ashes of allah covering the story and shes joining us now live from sacramento with the latest official update actually. Its an as yet covid19 cases in california are exploding with a new peak at 14,000 cases per day state leaders gave this new warning with real concerns about the State Hospital capacity. But if these trends continue were going to have to take much more dramatic. Arguably drastic action governor Gavin Newsome says hes waving the red flag as california sees a surge in covid19 cases and hospitalizations he warned monday a stay at home order could become it
To avoid circulating the virus in the first place. That is San Francisco mayor london breed now at 5 bay area officials sounding the alarm co to surge across the nation this as every bay area county is now back in the red or purple tier of the states reopening plan, thank you for joining us at 5 im pam moore and im Catherine Heenan in for ken wayne tonight. The San Francisco Health Department released a travel advisory this is asking people to avoid unnecessary travel leading to thanksgiving. Today the citys Health Director doctor grant colfax said San Francisco is also experiencing a big search and doctor colfax said while San Francisco is behind the National Average daily cases, the increase in the number of cases is still more widespread and faster that happened during the summer surge kron fours dan kerman joins us live now from San Francisco with more on all of this dance. Well the Health Director in the mayor trying to right the ship and do it quickly because they say if this get
Heal the soul of this country so that we can effectively address this crisis as one country. Were hardworking americans have each others backs. And now to our top story at 3 and may be months before president elect Joe Biden Takes Office but hes already getting the ball rolling with a new Coronavirus Task force on the heels of pfizer announcing early data its covid19 vaccine is 90 effective. President elect joe biden says a lot of work still remains which is why Biden Announces New covid19 Task Force Washington correspondent alexandra le mon has the details. I will spare no effort to turn this pandemic around president elect joe biden says a lot of work remains to be done to battle the coronavirus pandemic nearly 240,000 deaths so far. Protecting the projections still it okay we can lose. 200,000 more lives in the coming months thats what biden announced his new covid19 task force which includes a former Surgeon General former food and Drug Administration or and a yale professor biden
Milestone, california is close to the 1 million mark of covid19 cases over 991,000 cases have been reported in the state as of today. The men number keeps going up. Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im justine waltman the u. S. Has surpassed 10 million infections and now california will be the second state right behind texas to eclipse a million known cases which is now forcing the state to roll back reopening plans and also new today Alameda County becomes the latest bay area county to pause its reopening plans. Currently alameda is in the states orange tier which allows some indoor businesses to operate with modified Health Orders but Health Officials say theyre expected to move backwards into the red tier really soon so if the county does not curb its infection rate. There is a chance in may have to go back even further into the purple tier which would force many non essential indoor businesses to close kron fours terisa stasio is following the stories. Well