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Portrait close up of a man with pm 2.5 pollution mask in the street of a big city
Portrait close up of a man with pm 2.5 pollution mask in the street of a big city
Photo: Krisanapong Detraphiphat / Getty Images
Portrait close up of a man with pm 2.5 pollution mask in the street of a big city
Portrait close up of a man with pm 2.5 pollution mask in the street of a big city
Photo: Krisanapong Detraphiphat / Getty Images
LAST 10 Aug, 11:40 p.m. A San Quentin State Prison resident, Pedro Arias, died Sunday from suspected COVID-19 complications, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR).
Arias was 58 and has been on the death row since 1990. A road user will determine the exact deaths on the exact days, the CDCR reported.
According to a COVID-19 tracker by the CDCR, San Quentin currently has 134 active coronavirus cases, with 60 of those occurring in the last two weeks. To date, more than 2,000 cases have been solved in prison. However, San Quentin has also counted the most deaths as a result of the virus, accounting for about half of all deaths in the state of California.
August 10, 10:45 p.m. UC campuses will require all students and administrators to get flu shots from November 1, following an executive order from UC President Janet Napolitano on Friday.
“To support the health and well-being of UC students, faculty, and staff and our communities, the University of California, in consultation with UC Health leadership, has issued a system-wide executive mandate,” Napolitano said in a statement. The requirement is applicable, although students and faculties this fall are mostly engaged in distance learning.
The mission aims to reduce the burden of a flu-related outbreak on UC medical facilities while perpetuating the coronavirus pandemic and also affecting healthcare The UC system will allow individuals to seek exemption for medical or religious reasons.
August 10 10 p.m. Dollar Tree Inc., which owns the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar retail chains, will now require all associates and customers to wear masks at their 15,000 locations nationwide.
A post on the company’s official website notes the new policy, reading, “To best protect each other, and in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, we urge all Associates, clients and suppliers to wear face masks when we are in our stores. “
The rule marks the reverse course of the business from a recent decision. Previously, customers were only required to wear masks where counties required such precautionary measures in indoor retail establishments.
Read more from KCRA.
Aug. 10 9:30 p.m. Dr. Sonia Angell, the state director of the California Department of Public Health, was abruptly fired Sunday, informing state staff via email.
“Since January, when we received word of repatriation flights arriving from Wuhan, China, our department has been front and center in what has become an entire government response of unusual proportions to COVID-19,” she wrote. . “In the final calculation, all our work, in total, makes the difference.”
The departure of Dr. Angell is following widespread data errors – one related to a computer server outbreak, and one after the expiration of an Questions Laboratories electronic data receipt – leading to the incorrect reporting of coronavirus cases in counties across the state caused. Officials, however, would not say if their dismissal was related to the mistakes.
Read more here.
Coronavirus in the larger bay area: links you need
LIGHT HEALTH DEPARTMENTS
Alameda County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and health care.
Contra Costa County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and order for health.
Lake County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and health order.
Marin County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and order for health.
Monterey County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and order for health.
Napa County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and health order.
San Benito County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health order.
San Francisco County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and health order.
San Mateo County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and health order.
Santa Clara County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and health order.
Santa Cruz County: Find the latest COVID-19 numbers and health orders.
Solano County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and order for health.
Sonoma County: Find the latest COVID-19 issues and health order.
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