SF News SF Suspends All Power and Water Shutoffs, Dismisses Late Fees on Overdue Payments To shield San Franciscans from having their lights and water turned off during these worrisome times, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) won’t cut-off power and water services due to non-payment. Also, both SFPUC and SF Muni will waive late fees on overdue payments.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Governor Newsom Orders All Bars and Nightclubs in CA to Close, Restaurants Can Operate at 50 Percent Capacity In an unprecedented statewide move, Governor Gavin Newsom announced in a press conference Sunday that he's ordering all bars, breweries, and wineries in the state to close, regardless of their size, in order to create "deep social distancing."
SF News Two UCSF Healthcare Workers Test Positive for COVID-19 University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) officials confirmed that two healthcare employees have tested positive for the coronavirus, prompting exposure concerns over the novel respiratory virus.
SF News Sunday Links: Nine New COVID-19 Cases Reported in SF; Concord Declares State of Emergency Nine new coronavirus cases were reported in SF, the City of Concord declared a state of emergency over COVID-19, and Sonoma County confirmed its first case of "community spread" for the novel respiratory disease.
SF News Alaska Airlines Gate Agent at SFO Tests Positive For Coronavirus An employee of Alaska Airlines, reportedly a ticketing or gate agent for the airline at San Francisco International Airport, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
SF News Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts Shutting Down Sunday The next shoe to drop in the coronavirus pandemic is the early end to ski season in the Sierra — though the resorts say they will reassess the situation in a week.
SF News How You Can Support San Francisco's Queer Elders and LGBTQ+ Nightlife Workers in the Age of Coronavirus Public health emergencies tend to expose the cracks in our society — this time, particularly, around our ability to help SF’s queer elders and those who make a living in the city’s gay nightlife scene amidst times of crisis. In the age of COVID-19, here’s how you can support those two local cohorts.
SF News Stanford Tells Students to 'Leave Campus' After Undergrad Tests Positive for Coronavirus In a statement issued by the hallowed academic institution Friday night, Stanford University announced a student tested positive for COVID-19. As a means of precaution, college officials have asked that "as many students as possible" vacate the campus by Wednesday, March 18th.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bars With Capacity Over 100 Ordered to Close For Seven Weeks; Restaurants Told To Limit Capacity An order went out late Friday from San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon that forces the closure of bars and nightclubs with official maximum occupant loads of 100 people or more, and this led to the immediate closure of at least two Castro nightclubs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: All the Bay Area Coronavirus Updates for Friday the 13th Mayor London Breed has banned events of 100 or more people in SF, there are now six firefighters in San Jose who have tested positive, and Breed also announced a moratorium on all evictions stemming from the pandemic.
SF News Grand Princess Coronavirus Cases Likely Linked To Seattle Cases Through genetic analysis of virus samples, infectious disease detectives said Friday that the coronavirus cases that appeared on the Grand Princess cruise ship are very likely traceable back to the original Seattle case that spurred the hot spot to our north.
SF News SFUSD Offers Free Meals to Schoolkids During Coronavirus Closures The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) announced yesterday that they’ll close all schools Monday for three weeks, the last week being their scheduled spring break. As a result, SFUSD will now supply free student meals during the two-week closure prompted by COVID-19.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zero Zero, Mourad and Other Downtown Restaurant to Offer Meal Delivery Many restaurants around the country are confronting the possibly devastating effects of social distancing recommendations, and restaurants in downtown San Francisco are already feeling the pain only a week into this mess.
SF News Instagram Account That Posts Pretty Photos Of SF Posts Trump Video On Coronavirus Whoever is running the Instagram account @sanfrancisco.city, which has otherwise been a fairly innocuous account that sticks to pretty photos of San Francisco, just revealed that they reside somewhere far from San Francisco and in a land that is still listening to Donald Trump. Or maybe Russia.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 12 Best Alcohol Delivery Services In SF If you're already hunkered down with your toilet paper and sundries, we have a list of ways you can quickly order the other most important pantry-item category: booze.
SF News Virus Updates: Five New SF Cases, Museums Shutter, Oakland Schools Close The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco went up by five on Friday, to 23, while the total count in Santa Clara County stands at 66. And the outlook for the entire country is looking increasingly dire.
SF News SF Opens New Coronavirus Testing Center, But It’s Referral-Only You can’t get a walk-in test, and they’ll only take people referred by a doctor, but the temporarily shuttered Castro-Mission Health Center on 17th Street has been triaged into a COVID-19 testing center.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mayor London Breed Lunches At One Market, Restaurant Wants To Encourage People To Keep Eating Out Mayor London Breed on Thursday had lunch at One Market, in part symbolically to encourage San Franciscans to support the local economy and keep patronizing businesses, even as they practice varying degrees of social distancing.
Arts & Entertainment ACT and Berkeley Rep Cancel Shows, With Both Planning to Offer Video-Streaming Alternative The local theater community is being roiled by measures to stem the coronavirus pandemic, and today we learn that both American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre have canceled their current and upcoming shows for the next month. But video-streaming alternatives are on the way.
Arts & Entertainment Broadway Theaters, Disneyland Shut Down; SF Giants Delay Opening Day Social distancing measures hit the American entertainment and sports industries hard this week. And this is a very good thing, even though we are in uncharted territory both economically and societally.
SF News San Francisco Reports 4 New COVID-19 Cases, 3 From Community Spread After one day with no new cases, the San Francisco Department of Public Health says that it has four more confirmed cases in the city — and it will now be updating the tally daily at 10 a.m. instead of noon.
SF News San Mateo Health Officer Says Society Would Need to 'Grind to a Halt' to Stop COVID-19 Dr. Scott Morrow, the chief health officer for San Mateo County, is emerging as our local Angela Merkel — a no-nonsense, no-spin alarm-ringer about the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News SF's Lakeshore Elementary School Closes Due To Possible Coronavirus Exposure Four students at San Francisco's Lakeshore Elementary School and "several" of their adult family members have shown signs of respiratory illness, which has led to a 14-day closure for the school — which sits directly beside the high school that was shut down last week.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Newsom Enacts Statewide Ban On Large Events Salesforce is donating $1.5 million to the coronavirus fight, Nancy Pelosi says even elbow bumps might be unwise, and a Grand Princess passenger describes a very disorganized disembarkation process.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser Begins Drive-Thru Testing For Coronavirus All performances of 'Hamilton' and 'The Last Ship' have been canceled for two weeks, California nurses are protesting the CDC's recommendations, and a major crash blocked eastbound lanes of I-80 in Berkeley today.
