Much of the state and parts of the Bay Area enter Phase 2 of California’s COVID-19 recovery plan, allowing more businesses to open while the state’s death and infection toll continues to climb.
In Phase 2, curbside retail, manufacturing plants and blue-collar offices will be allowed to resume operations throughout the state except for Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties, which continue to keep the more stringent shelter-in-place rules in effect. (Updated: Bay Area counties say they planning to relax the orders.)
Three days ago the state recorded its second deadliest day of the outbreak with 107 deaths. Another 84 Californians died of the virus over the weekend, bringing the death toll to 3,240 statewide.
The state’s pace of growth remained the same as the week before, with 18 percent more cases and 17 percent more fatalities.
Stay up to date with the virus’ spread with our Bay Area county-by-county map and our California-wide map.
Resources:
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Live updates:
A COVID-19 testing site has opened at the Alameda County Fairgrounds and is available to all residents age 10 and up, regardless if you’re having symptoms. — Anglea Ruggiero, 11:52 a.m.
In the eight weeks of coronavirus restrictions, the Bay Area unemployment rate has skyrocketed with about 114,000 existing or planned layoffs, temporary layoffs and furloughs. Those seeking unemployment payments are exposing troubles within the system. — George Avalos, 11:50 a.m.
An outbreak of COVID-19 at Federal Correctional Institution Lompoc, which has had more than 1,700 cases and 10 fatalities, could be the key to an early release for Michael “Harry-O” Harris, the former Los Angeles cocaine kingpin who financed the creation of Death Row Records in the 1990s. Harris will ask a judge to free him based on the conditions in the prison and its failures to protect inmates from the disease. — Nate Gartrell, 11:40 a.m.
Feel like doing a little gambling, with your money and possibly your health? The Viejas Casino & Resort, one of the largest tribal-run casino in the San Diego area, opened Monday, along with some others, with huge crowds. Guests are required to wear face coverings and have their temperatures taken at the door, but reports said gamblers were not practicing social distancing. — Associated Press, 11:32 a.m.
Uber, which already has cut almost 4,000 jobs, will chop off another 3,000 as the San Francisco-based ride-hailing company struggles with the coronavirus crisis. The cuts, involving full-time staff members, are an attempt to reduce operating expenses. — Rex Crum, 11:31 a.m.
The World Health Organization, responding the requests from its members states, will launch an independent probe in to how it managed the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Questions on how it dealt with the pandemic in early days have been clouded by accusations flying between the United States and China over responsibility. — Associated Press, 11:27 a.m.
The number of new cases of COVID-19 on the peninsula continued to tick up, although San Francisco and San Mateo counties reached a positive benchmark — neither county reported a COVID-19 death in three straight days. — Evan Webeck, 11:24 a.m.
The first U.S. states that rolled out smartphone apps for tracing the contacts of COVID-19 patients are running into technical glitches and a general lack of interest. A second wave of tech-assisted pandemic surveillance tools with the aid of Apple and Google, are on their way. — Associated Press, 11:21 a.m.
Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, along with the city of Berkeley, will announce new orders relaxing some of the coronavirus restrictions. The governments said they will allow curbside retail pickup and associated manufacturing, warehousing and logistics businesses to reopen this week, bringing them more in line with the rest of the state. — Fiona Kelliher, 10:21 a.m.
Wall Street, feeling more upbeat on the news that early stage testing of a coronavirus vaccine was promising, gave Bay Area business such as Apple, Tesla and HP some good news, with their share prices climbing when the market opened Monday morning. Overall, the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared by 672.11 points — almost 3 percent — to 24,367.07; the S&P 500 climbed 2.7 percent to 2,940.06; and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index climbed almost 2 percent to 9,183.59. — Rex Crum, 7:30 a.m.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus emergency assistance plan for the state’s undocumented immigrants begins accepting applications today for disaster relief payments of up to $1,000 per household. The $75 million fund is intended for undocumented adults who are not eligible for other forms of government assistance. — Jacqueline García, 7 a.m.
Moderna Inc’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine is showing promise after being tested in a small, early stage clinical trial. The vaccinne produced antibodies that could neutralize the new coronavirus, resulting in antibodies that are similar to those in blood samples of people who have recovered from COVID-19. — Reuters, 6:31 a.m.
