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Berkeley suspends school bus service due to staff Covid-19 exposures
Bus services for roughly 1,400 Berkeley elementary school students has been suspended this week because of three Covid-19 exposures affecting the district’s transportation department. School officials were notified of...Read More
Oriental fruit fly scare prompts 94-square-mile agriculture quarantine
The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced Tuesday that a portion of South San Jose is under quarantine for the oriental fruit fly, with residents in the area...Read More
Covid outbreaks force rural California school closures
Just weeks after schools reopened for the school year, some rural California campuses are closing temporarily to stop Covid outbreaks from spreading among students and staff. This week, at...Read More
Oakland airport offers pre-travel Covid-19 tests for nonstop flights to Hawaii
As interstate traveling restrictions ease, Oakland International Airport announced Thursday that it is offering multiple daily flights to Hawaii and pre-travel coronavirus testing for passengers. Hawaiian Airlines is providing...Read More
San Francisco extends stay-at-home order, travel quarantine
In response to the significant amount of Covid-19 cases in California and throughout the nation, San Francisco officials are indefinitely extending the mandatory travel quarantine and local stay-at-home order,...Read More
SF sees Covid surge slow but officials stress need to ‘keep pressure on the virus’
San Francisco health officials say they are seeing indications that the post-Thanksgiving Covid-19 surge might have reached a peak, said Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax. Colfax...Read More
SF health officials order 10-day quarantine for anyone who travels outside Bay Area
Public health officials in San Francisco have issued an order requiring a mandatory 10-day quarantine for anyone who travels into The City from outside the Bay Area. The order...Read More
U.S. president, first lady test positive for Covid-19, Pence’s daily test returns negative
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for Covid-19. Trump announced the news via Twitter at just before 10 p.m. Thursday night. Dr. Sean P....Read More
Police say overall Fremont crime down as commercial burglaries, auto thefts spike
Crime in Fremont has decreased overall in the month since Alameda County issued its 2019 novel coronavirus shelter-in-place order, but property crimes have risen by 30 percent, the Fremont...Read More
CORRECTION: Seventy people test positive for Covid-19 from MSC South homeless shelter
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Friday that Covid-19 has infected 70 people at the MSC South emergency homeless shelter. Of those infected, two are staff members and 68...Read More
Bay Area Covid-19 update: Piedmont park shuts down, Santa Clara County Fairground to shelter homeless
President Donald Trump told reporters Saturday that his administration is considering imposing a federal quarantine on the hardest hit states: New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He affirmed the...Read More
Seven staff, one patient confirmed Covid-19 positive at quarantined Laguna Honda Hospital
Seven staff members and one patient at San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, city officials said in an update Saturday. All are in...Read More
Bay Area COVID-19 update: delayed ship departure, widespread school closures, bans
The California Department of Public Health reported 198 confirmed 2019 novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, cases throughout seven California counties as of Thursday morning. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive...Read More
Executive order waives unemployment waiting period, allows emergency property commandeering
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a new executive order Thursday in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, which now has nearly 200 positive cases reported in the state. Newsom’s executive...Read More
Bay Area coronavirus update: rising numbers, campus closures, cruise ship evacuation
San Francisco’s total number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases, or COVID-19, jumped to 13 since the announcement of the first two cases by health officials last week. On Friday,...Read More
Grand Princess evacuation expected at Port of Oakland Monday, agencies work out ‘enormous complexities’
A 10-acre site at the Port of Oakland is being prepared and secured for the anticipated arrival of the quarantined Grand Princess cruise ship and evacuations of passengers anticipated...Read More
Travel exposure suspected as origin of first Berkeley confirmed COVID-19 case
A resident of Berkeley who recently returned from travel abroad has tested posted for COVID-19, the city’s health officer said Tuesday. The resident, who is the East Bay city’s...Read More
Travis AFB transfers two coronavirus patients to Contra Costa County hospitals
Contra Costa Health Services officials confirmed Tuesday that two novel coronavirus patients among a group of quarantined international travelers at Travis Air Force Base have been transferred to Contra...Read More
Travis AFB processes quarantined ship passengers
A flight carrying U.S. citizens who had been passengers on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan arrived about 11:30 p.m. at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield,...Read More