Coronavirus

The churches argue that the state and local orders are overly broad and that they can practice safe social distancing in the same manner as grocery stores and other outlets that are considered essential services and allowed to remain open.

Officials around the world have said that social-distancing measures and quarantines have made progress in reducing the spread of the virus. But they also have warned that easing those measures too soon might lead to a surge.

In the Peninsula, there is a push underway to get masks to Latino farm workers preparing the fields for planting in Half Moon Bay and Pescadero.

A city councilman from Union City said his 84-year-old grandmother died on Monday in a Bay Area nursing home after contracting COVID-19. She was a resident at Gateway Care and Rehabilitation Center in Hayward. She is the tenth person to have died there. 66 people have tested positive for coronavirus.

Fifty-six more people on Monday were ordered released from the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin in an effort to lower the risk that the coronavirus will spread through the jail, Alameda County court officials said. 

​​​​​​​The family of a man who died at a Hayward nursing home with an outbreak of the coronavirus spoke out Monday, saying they believe he contracted the virus from a staff member.

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Walnut Creek, who has been sick with pneumonia and in an intensive care unit since last month, was moved out of intensive care Monday, his office and sons announced. 

Officials in Sonoma County issued a mandatory public health order for all residents to wear face coverings when out in public for essential activities. 

San Francisco is among the cities grappling with how to house and help the homeless to isolate in the middle of a pandemic. Some are calling for the city's homeless to all be moved into hotels, but Mayor London Breed is saying at this point that's an impractical solution.

According to researchers at the University of Washington, whose projections on the covid-19 curve have been used by hospitals and public health agencies across the country, California will reach peak deaths by Wednesday. 

The West Coast is bending the COVID-19 curve and looking ahead to easing restrictions and reopening the economy based on health outcomes. 

An underground nightclub in San Francisco was shutdown for operating during the city's COVID-19 public health order, which required all non-essential businesses to close. 

America is throwing away massive amounts of perfectly good food, especially meats and produce. It's a problem being highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic: we can't always get food to where it's needed due to logistical problems

California's insurance commissioner has ordered some insurance companies to refund premiums for March and April because of restrictions brought on by coronavirus shelter in place orders and said the action would provide consumers and businesses "much-needed financial relief" during this crisis.