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Day Around the Bay: Outbreak At Safeway Distribution Center Kills One

Nancy Pelosi will be put to the test in negotiating more stimulus funds, a team at UCSF is now using CRISPR technology to make a next-generation coronavirus test, and an outbreak of COVID-19 and one worker death at a Safeway facility in Tracy could lead to supply-chain issues.

Day Around the Bay: Alameda DA to Investigate Hayward Nursing Home

Gov. Newsom announced a new fund to provide pandemic relief payments to undocumented people, Ayesha Curry is being sued, and the Alameda County DA's office is investigating the Hayward nursing home where now 13 elderly residents have died of COVID-19.

Day Around the Bay: Independent Contractors Can Receive Unemployment

A Vallejo shoplifting suspect coughed on employees to flee with stolen goods, SFO is getting $255 million from the stimulus package, and a new CDC report says that over 9,000 U.S. healthcare workers have tested positive for COVID-19.

Day Around the Bay: Sonoma County Makes Wearing Face Masks the Law

Gov. Newsom says that a plan for an incremental lifting of sheltering orders is being coordinated between all West Coast states, BART is closing some station entrances, and Sonoma just made it illegal to leave the house without a facial covering.

Day Around the Bay: City Lights Bookstore Raises $300K To Keep Staff Paid, Stay Afloat

An initial study of Gilead's drug remdesivir in 53 severe COVID-19 cases found 68 percent clinical improvement, Gov. Newsom hinted at a path to "some semblance of normalcy" in "a few weeks," and a pipe bomb report at an Oakland grocery store turned out to be nothing.

Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Still Won't Let House Members Vote Remotely

The city of Berkeley has recorded its first COVID-19 death, Eventbrite just laid off 450 people, and the US Postal Service is seeking an $89 billion bailout.

Day Around the Bay: Wuhan Lifts Its Lockdown Orders

Furloughs and pay cuts hit the Tesla plant in Fremont, SF inks deal for nearly 2,000 hotel rooms for the homeless at $197 a pop, and lockdown is over in the Wuhan Province.

Day Around the Bay: Grand Princess Cruise Ship Docks at Pier 35 to Refuel and Restock on Supplies

The Grand Princess cruise ship returned to the SF Bay today and docked at Pier 35 to refuel and gather more supplies, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey pledged $1B of his wealth to coronavirus relief efforts, and three inmates at the Santa Rita Jail have tested positive for COVID-19.

Day Around the Bay: Transamerica Pyramid Beacon To Light Up For Healthcare Workers

The Moscone Center homeless shelter will pivot to become smaller, BART is decreasing weekday service further to every 30 minutes, and a North Bay congressman has come to the defense of the Santa Rosa-born Navy captain who's been dismissed for publicizing the COVID situation on his aircraft carrier.

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Day Around the Bay: Outside Lands Organizers Post Update

A nursing home in Orinda has 27 positive COVID-19 cases, Governor Newsom says he's secured 7,000 hotel rooms for the homeless, and San Diego County is now issuing $1,000 fines to people violating stay-at-home orders.

Day Around the Bay: Democratic National Convention Moves to August

SF police arrested a 54-year-old man connected to a string of Hayes Valley arsons, California is seriously lagging behind most of the country in its coronavirus testing backlog, and a new walk-up testing site has opened in SF General's parking lot.

Day Around the Bay: Muni Buses Get Crowded After Trains Go Offline

Sierra snowpack is at 53 percent of average after a very dry winter, Antioch police arrested an Arizona man after a three-city chase, and Muni buses and shuttles are looking too crowded for social distancing after the Metro trains were shut down.

Day Around the Bay: Violent Crime Drops and Property Crime Plummets

Amtrak's 'California Zephyr' service suspended after an employee tests positive for the coronavirus, a local food bank is starting pop-up pantries to address need, and a Santa Rosa police detective has died from COVID-19.

Day Around the Bay: 202 New COVID-19 Cases Reported In Santa Clara County

Santa Clara County just saw its biggest single-day rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases so far, attorneys for Ghost Ship defendant Derrick Almena are trying to get him released due to the virus threat, and federal and state officials are bracing for a Laguna Honda hospital outbreak.

Day Around the Bay: Double Homicide Near Powell Street

Instacart workers are threatening to strike, SFMOMA is laying off or furloughing 300 workers, and there was a double-homicide yesterday on Cyril Magnin near Powell Street BART.

Day Around the Bay: Barack Obama Joins Steph Curry's Q&A With Dr. Fauci

A whistleblower filed a complaint with Cal-OSHA claiming SF General staff isn't being kept adequately safe during the coronavirus pandemic, thieves broke into a closed Half Moon Bay restaurant, and Berkeley is forcing its dispensaries to do delivery only.

Day Around the Bay: BART Will Get a Piece of Federal Stimulus Package

Mayor Breed says SF needs 5,000 more hospital beds to handle a surge in COVID-19 cases, SF businesses refusing to take cash are breaking the law, and Steph Curry is hosting a live Q&A Thursday with Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Day Around the Bay: Tenderloin Sees Uptick In Break-Ins, Vandalism During Lockdown

Mayor Breed announces new tenant protections, Democrats may be nearing a deal with the White House for a stimulus package, and Kaiser Permanente has canceled plans for a huge new headquarters complex in Oakland in a blow to the local economy.

Day Around the Bay: San Francisco Art Institute To Lay Off Staff, Close Permanently

Mayor Breed chastised San Franciscans for not maintaining proper distances when outside, one of the elderly patients at a Burlingame nursing home has died of COVID-19, and the San Francisco Art Institute says it likely is closing its doors for good after this year's graduation.

Day Around the Bay: SoMa Nightclub Slim's To Close Permanently

The first of what could be many nightclub deaths during this pandemic is Slim's on 11th Street, PG&E has agreed to potentially sell itself to the state, and Newsom has pulled all toll-takers off of Bay Area bridges.

Day Around the Bay: SF Prepares for Surge In New COVID-19 Cases

Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statement saying 56 percent of California could be infected in 8 weeks without isolation measures, and he's seeking $1 billion in emergency aid to prepare for a surge in cases.

Day Around the Bay: London Breed Tells CNN 'People Are Making Adjustments'

Golden Gate Bridge tolls plummet and bridge officials now want emergency funding, Newsom offers $150M in emergency funding to protect the homeless, and London Breed pushed back on Jake Tapper's calling out of San Francisco for not isolating ourselves enough.

Day Around the Bay: SF Supes Discuss Reopening Pot Dispensaries

Sonoma County looks to be joining the shelter-in-place order, possibly by midnight, the SFPD says it may resort to citations as a last resort if people don't cooperate with the order, and the SF Board of Supervisors may work to reopen pot dispensaries.

Day Around the Bay: Mayor Announces Sick-Leave Fund For Minimum-Wage Workers

People in SF are panic-shopping and they shouldn't be, Safeway is hiring 2,000 new employees in the face of all this shopping, a young girl was gravely wounded by a car in the Tenderloin, and the Census Bureau has a new task force to make sure the virus doesn't lead to an under-count.

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.