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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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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.…

4 years ago

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:…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

4 years ago

Quarantined cruise ship passengers arrive at Travis AFB Sunday

American citizens being evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship now in Japan and quarantined due to a novel coronavirus…

4 years ago

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