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FILE – A Department of Corrections officer watches over the main entrance leading to the San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California, July 24, 2019. California lawmakers harshly criticized state corrections officials on Wednesday, July 1. 2020 for a “leadership failure”. for messing up their handling of the pandemic by inadvertently transferring infected prisoners to an intact prison, triggering the worst coronavirus outbreak in the state prison.
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FILE – A Department of Corrections officer watches the main entrance leading to the San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California, July 24, 2019. California lawmakers harshly criticized the state corrections
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Photo: Eric Risberg, Associated Press
FILE – A Department of Corrections officer watches over the main entrance leading to the San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California, July 24, 2019. California lawmakers harshly criticized state corrections officials on Wednesday, July 1. 2020 for a “leadership failure”. for messing up their handling of the pandemic by inadvertently transferring infected prisoners to an intact prison, triggering the worst coronavirus outbreak in the state prison.
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FILE – A Department of Corrections officer watches the main entrance leading to the San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, California, July 24, 2019. California lawmakers harshly criticized the state corrections
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Photo: Eric Risberg, Associated Press
LAST July 2, 8 am A Golden State Warriors employee tested positive for coronavirus and led to the temporary closure of the Oakland training center, according to KTVU, which received a statement from the team Wednesday night.
The center “will undergo a complete sanitation immediately,” the Warriors said.
July 2, 7:50 a.m. More than 40 school principals in the Santa Clara County Unified School District are isolating themselves at home after being exposed to COVID-19 two weeks ago at a district meeting in person, according to the NBC Bay Area.
A person at the meeting with no symptoms tested positive for the virus days later.
July 2, 7:37 am Sonoma County has seen its deadliest week in the coronavirus pandemic. Four people have died since Sunday to increase the total death toll to nine.
Since mid-March, the county has detected 1,229 infections and there are currently 600 active infections.
According to the state’s COVID-19 data tracker, the rate of positive COVID-19 tests is 2.5% in 14 days.
July 2, 7:15 am A death row inmate sentenced in a Contra Costa County case since 1979 died Wednesday at San Quentin State Prison, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Joseph S. Cordova, who had been on California death row since 2007, was 75 years old. He was found unanswered in his cell and declared dead at 4:22 pm
There were no signs of trauma, according to the CDCR, but his cause of death and whether he had contracted COVID-19 were not yet known.
A coronavirus outbreak hit the Marin County Jail last month and as of Thursday morning, 1,259 inmates had tested positive, according to the CDCR COVID -19Tracker. In the past two weeks alone, 961 prisoners were identified as carriers of the virus. In May, the prison did not have a single case, but the situation changed after a transfer of inmates from the Chino to San Quintín prison was mismanaged.
Cordova was sentenced to death in 2007 for the rape and murder of eight-year-old Cannie Melinda Bullock in São Paulo in August 1979. Investigators compared DNA from the crime scene with Cordova 23 years later, in 2002, when he was serving a prison. sentencing in Colorado for sexual abuse of minors. There are 724 people on California death row.
Córdoba is the second death row inmate to die in San Quintín in the last eight days.
Bay City News contributed to this story.
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