Accused of masterminding the massive task of prominent twitter accounts 2 weeks ago. And zimbabwe sends out its military to enforce a ban on antigovernment protests dozens of people are detained. Now Hong Kong Police are reportedly seeking the arrest of 6 prodemocracy activists living in exile as china steps up its enforcement of its newly imposed National Security they include former u. K. Consulate worker simon chang prominent activist nathan law and u. S. Citizen samuel chu now chang says he was tortured by the chinese authorities for information about hong kongs antigovernment protests while north fled to london soon after china imposed that National Security law and truth founded the Hong Kong Democracy Council in the United States the police have declined to comment but it would be the. Time to talk of an activist outside the 50 under the federal law joining me right now from los angeles is samuel chub one of the activists whose arrest has been ordered by the police as weve been
Are the Health Care Workers themselves, the medical workers themselves, the doctors, the nurses, the support staff who weve relied on from the very first moments that we began to realize that this virus was bigger than any health issue weve dealt with in a long time. Were still depending on it today. At some point you run out of some of the capacity and steam that you had to do the job that needs to be done. But we see these heroes continue to step up. Some giving their lives. In bill in birmingham and kansas city was an emergency medical technician. He was with the Kansas City Fire Department and he died of coronavirus in april. His son described billy as selfless. He said billy had decided he wanted to find new ways to help people and so he reinvented himself as an e. M. T. When he was in his 40s so he could help others and then he was an e. M. T. For about 22 years. We see the Emergency Medical Technicians, the First Responders out there saving lives, bringing people in a desperate
Schoolwide coronavirus tests to make sure students and staff are safe when they return to the classroom. Widespread testing not only helps contain the virus, it builds confidence that the schools are safe. U. S. Assistant secretary for health told our committee that there will be 40 to 50 million diagnostic tests available per month by september. Thats four to five times the number of todays tests and todays number in the United States is twice as many as any other country. And dr. Francis collins who led the human genome project and leads the National Institutes of health, leads a shark tank enterprise at the nih to discover new ways to create tens of millions of quick and accurate and inexpensive diagnostic tests. School covid plans should let the plans last for at least a year. The government is pursuing vaccines at what it calls warp speed, faster than weve ever done that before, but no one expects a vaccine this august. And the second half of the school year, schools should be bet
Tonight. We begin this evening with a bay area teen that may be closing in on a potential treatment for covid19. It relies on our own immune systems, our own bodys ability to fight off infegs when invaded by a virus. Now a South San Francisco doctor says his work is taking the next step. Abc7 News Reporter chris nguyen has the story. In the race to find a cure for covid19, theres new hope from bay area scientists who have been working around the clock. Good to have big dreams, big dreams got us to the moon. Reporter you might recognize dr. Jacob glenville from the Netflix Docuseries pandemic. Hes the president and ceo of distributed bio, which is developing an antibody therapeutic to treat the Novel Coronavirus. If your loved one has to go to the hospital. We give them the therapy and instead of getting more sick, they get better rapidly and go home. The minute we have an antibody therapy we can end the crisis. Three independent laboratories including one at stanford yufr Stanford Univ
Requirements at a june 2nd meeting. Theyre punting on that latter part there. Reporting live this morning, julian glover, abc7 news. Happenng today, officials in Santa Clara County will announce that free covid19 testing is available for all residents. The tests will be administered in East San Jose and the Santa Clara County fairgrounds. Screening and testing will be operated by baseline. Santa clara county rescheduled the 11 30 press conference to make the announcement. Led to a dispute between the oakland as and its coliseum landlord. The bay area is reporting that the team is holding back on a 1. 2 million rent payment to the coliseum authority. The as say they need a better understanding of when the coliseum will be available for its use. Governor newsom suggests that prosports could be back next month. Both sides are talking. The u. S. Justice department is warning Governor Newsom, californias restrictions on churches may violate religious freedoms. The Department Says the states