Travelers walk with their luggage at Beijing Capital International Airport, on Dec. 27TINGSHU WANG/Reuters

China’s relaxation of COVID-19 rules for international arrivals has raised hopes that its multi-billion dollar travel business will soon flourish again but countries longing for the return of Chinese tourists will likely face more of a wait.

China’s National Health Commission announced on Monday that inbound travelers would no longer have to go into quarantine from Jan. 8. There are no official restrictions on Chinese people going abroad but the new rule will make it much easier for them to return home.

China was the world’s largest outbound tourism market before COVID shut down global travel, with its overseas visitors spending $127.5 billion on travel in 2019.

Airlines are drawing up plans to expand their services but ordinary Chinese and travel agencies suggest that a return to anything like normal will take some time.

“It’s great they announced it so I can seriously make my plans,” said Beijing exporter Tom Guo, 43.

But he said he would likely wait until the late spring or even the summer before venturing abroad again, most likely to the United States to visit a sister.

US carrier United Airlines Holdings Inc said it was evaluating the market demand and operating environment to determine when to resume additional flights to mainland China.

The airline currently operates four times a week between San Francisco and Shanghai.

German airline Lufthansa was examining whether to change its flight schedule to China following the changes.

“This will contribute to the recovery of international air traffic between Mainland China and Europe,” a spokesperson said.

TUI expects a positive impact on its currently limited flights to China, a spokesperson said.

Duty free retailer Dufry expects the changes to have a “positive effect at the airports that the Chinese use and where we have a presence,” a spokesperson said.

Guo said he definitely would not be going anywhere before the Lunar New Year holiday in late January.

Many others have taken heart from this week’s news about an imminent relaxation of the rules to begin making plans.

Data from travel platform Ctrip showed that within half an hour of the announcement, searches for popular cross-border destinations had increased 10-fold. The Qunar platform said it saw a seven-fold increase in international flight searches within 15 minutes.

Japan, Thailand and South Korea were among the top destinations searched on both platforms.

But an immediate surge in international travel is not widely expected.

The government, which has since 2020 discouraged international travel given the dangers of COVID, said in its Monday announcement about borders reopening that outbound travel would be restored “in an orderly manner.” It did not elaborate.

Flight tracking app VariFlight said its expected a robust rebound in flights to and from mainland China by the Labor Day holiday in May, but not before.

According to VariFlight data, international flights to and from China are at 8% of pre-pandemic levels.

Liu Simin, an official with the tourism arm of the China Society for Futures Studies, a research institute based in Beijing, said international travel won’t recover to pre-pandemic levels until 2024.

Weighing on many people’s travel plans is the wave of COVID-19 infections now sweeping China, Liu said.

Some countries, including Japan and India have announced travelers from China will have to show a negative COVID test on arrival.

Another problem for many people is money.

“It takes time for people to gain confidence after so many of them lost jobs or made less money during the pandemic,” Liu said.

In a consumer study released this month, before the announcement of the easing of travel restrictions, consultancy Oliver Wyman found more than half of Chinese people surveyed would wait from several months to a year before resuming international travel once borders re-open.

Some airlines were making plans even before Monday’s announcement. Korean Air said it would increase flights between South Korea and China from nine a week to 15 in January.

But for now, foreign visitor arrivals will be limited to resident, work, business, student and family reunification visas. No plan for the resumption of tourist visas has been announced.

One of the fastest bouncebacks is expected to be in international business travel.

“The recent announcement … clears the way for resumption of normal business travel, a top advocacy priority for the American business community in China over the past two years,” said AmCham China Chairman Colm Rafferty.

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The woman who does not want to be identified was with a friend who wanted to return a pair of jeans. No sooner had they parked in the garage on Monday afternoon than the attack began.

“They kicked and hit me,” said the woman in the video, who heard the attackers screaming over and over again.

“Two men just ran out and approached me. It felt so quick, like I just closed my eyes and opened my eyes and the car was gone, everything was gone, ”she told ABC7.

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The woman stated that she thought she and her friend were going to be kidnapped, but her friend, who was driving her rental car, managed to kick her attacker and run away.

“I didn’t register it in my head that it was a robbery.”

What remained: two black eyes and both women hurt and shaken, but grateful to be alive.

“Good luck,” said the woman in the video as she pointed out her injuries.

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Emeryville Police Department provided ABC7 News with information on the most recent incidents through their crime statistics reports. There have been at least three victims of robbery and car theft in the Bay Street parking garage since May. There were also a number of armed thefts in the various stores such as Victoria’s Secret, Uniqlo and Lenscrafters.

When the victim learned of the recent crime in the area in the video, the victim asked how further incidents could be prevented.

“If it’s happened multiple times, the mall should do a little more to make people feel safe and secure while shopping.”

ABC7 News reached out to the Bay Street property manager and did not get a response in time.

The woman in the video hopes that she can use her voice to help catch her perpetrators and serve as a warning and “thank you” to the couple who recorded the video of their attack and stayed with them until the police arrived .

“I think this could have happened to anyone, if it hadn’t been for us, it would have been someone else,” she said.

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No suspects have been arrested yet. The Emeryville Police Department is continuing their investigation into the incident and has requested that anyone with information call Detective John Corcoran at (510) 596-3734.

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San Francisco, which depends on tourists as the Golden Gate Bridge depends on towers and cables, is ready for you. Nearly.

With the city reopening a few weeks before Southern California due to improved COVID-19 test numbers and vaccination rates, a visitor can now expect busier restaurants, revitalized museums, lower room rates and fewer amenities in hotels, a new Ferris wheel in Golden Gate, Park, and a higher Fisherman’s Wharf Ratio for generations.

However, this image also includes no working cable cars, a locked Coit Tower, eerie silence between the downtown skyscrapers, less fancy grocers in the Ferry Building, and an awkward pause at the entrance to restaurants when guests return.

“Would you like to sit inside or outside?” A host asked for dinner at Gracias Madre restaurant on Mission Street. It was 48 degrees and humid.

“Outside,” said the diner. Every diner had said that – seven tables occupied, all outside. As of March 3, restaurants have been able to accommodate customers at 25% of their capacity in-house, with a 50% relaxation this week. However, Server Korina Wilson said, “A lot of people don’t want to sit inside just yet. ”

These cable cars are expected to have at least one of the city’s three lines running in the fall, and trams could return to Embarcadero and Market Streets as early as May.

Is it time to visit? This is your call With restrictions easing across the state, Sacramento health officials still advise against vacationing more than 120 miles from home. In LA County, public health officials are still urging residents to postpone the trip. But these are recommendations now, not mandates.

Although the city’s hotels have been allowed to accept tourists since January 28, around a third were still closed in mid-March.

Here are some voices from San Francisco about what they saw and expected.

Don’t be fooled on Valencia Street

On a cloudy Tuesday afternoon in mid-March, Debbie Horn and her husband Paul Miller were cycling on Valencia Street in the Mission District.

Miller said, “There are so many more people who ride bikes. We’ll be more like Copenhagen and Amsterdam. “

Horn said, “You can people watch more than ever before.”

In Golden Gate Park, the SkyStar Ferris Wheel reopened on March 4, carrying passengers 15 floors above the de Young Museum (reopened March 6) and the California Academy of Sciences (reopened last week). The Japanese tea garden is open to individuals and the guide volunteers are again taking walks.

Although shops and many hotels around Union Square are open and others are soon to follow, the square was so sleepy in mid-March that a weekday hiker could hear birds chirping and the distant voice of a ragged man asking for money – noises that it could have been drowned out two years ago by cable cars, street musicians and other city rattles.

Room rates in San Francisco are “much lower” than they were two years ago, said Joe D’Allesandro, executive director of the San Francisco Travel Association.

Rooms for less than $ 150 a night are common, but many hotel restaurants are closed and service will be restricted.

But the new energy is bittersweet. Because they have lived in the mission district for years and jointly own the nearby Royal Cuckoo Organ Lounge, he and Miller know that “even if you see a place that looks like it’s blocked, you’re still likely to lose money.”

“Don’t be fooled,” said Horn. “Everyone is a year behind their bills.”

Within SFMOMA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopened on March 7th. A few days later, Chief Administrative Officer Noah Bartlett stood near the entrance, remembering the start of the pandemic a year ago.

“We assumed it would be six weeks,” he said. “So naive, right?”

Since then, Bartlett and key museum staff have rescheduled exhibitions, rethought budgets, and mapped “every surface people would come into contact with,” including elevator buttons now covered with self-cleaning NanoSeptic pads.

“We would like to say that we are one of the safest indoor experiences one can have. You and I can walk through this building without touching anything, ”said Bartlett.

But he also understands that recovery may be slow. The three restaurants in the museum will remain closed. The Moscone Center across the street, once one of the busiest convention venues in the country, is a vaccination center.

Prior to the pandemic, Bartlett said, up to 60% of museum goers came from outside the Bay Area, and daily admissions rarely fell below 2,000. For the reopening, the museum drew around 3,500 visitors over two days.

“The energy has changed,” said Bartlett. “We’re going to stay in a depressed state, I think, probably for a couple of years,” said Bartlett. “It really accelerated our focus on the local audience.”

On the fifth floor, the museum will shortly be opening an exhibition entitled “Contemporary Optics”. As a plumber was preparing the galleries, Bartlett stepped onto the Oculus Bridge – the showcase walkway that hangs four floors above the museum lobby – and entered the “One-Way Color Tunnel” by artist Olafur Eliasson, which sparkled like purple ice.

This, said Bartlett, is a silver lining: a visitor can now “really gain the experience of the museum insider – time alone with works of art”.

Breakfast at the Boudin

In the Boudin bakery in Fisherman’s Wharf, a baker was standing in the picture window kneading the dough into the shape of a crab. A few yards behind the open door, visitors Dakota Cooley and her wife Amanda sat down for breakfast.

“We came from Arizona and only traveled as safely as we can. Which one drives, ”said Amanda.

“It’s the perfect time to drive for someone who doesn’t know this traffic,” said Dakota. “Nobody drives stress from work.”

Since arriving a week earlier, they had admired many churches and architecture by the water, often from their car. It reminds them of Europe, said Amanda, and it’s a world away from Arizona, “where a lot of people don’t want to wear masks”.

In the neighboring blocks, the shops and restaurants at Pier 39 and Ghirardelli Square were open with reduced capacity.

Seats on Green Street

The Sotto Mare restaurant is located on a short stretch of Green Street in North Beach that was a bright spot in the pandemic. The street is full of noise from guests relaxing as several restaurants have their tables grouped outside.

“On the weekends it can take two hours,” said manager Ria Azzolino Pesenti. More than 1,700 companies have signed up for the city’s Shared Spaces program, which allows restaurants and retailers to expand into sidewalks and parking lots. Many restaurants upgrade their patios to last longer and look better.

“We have now seen what is possible,” tweeted Mayor London Breed on March 12th.

In addition to struggling to keep the tables 6 feet apart, Pesenti and her team are juggling delivery services and Plexiglas partitions (which everyone likes so the restaurant can keep them after the pandemic). Then there is the Cioppino question.

Tourists, who used to make up half of the restaurant’s business, almost always order it because it’s the trademark of Sotto Mare. Locals who have kept the place alive for the past year often choose dabs of sand, scallops, or the fish of the day.

How soon will tourists return and where will they sit? It is impossible to know. But many local Sotto Mare customers are ready to get out of the cold. On March 8th, Pesenti said, “It was the first night we had more people waiting to be inside than sitting outside.”

City Lights Bookstore

A few decades ago, co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti hand-inscribed a sign on the wall of the City Lights bookstore: “Have a seat and read a book.” It’s a great idea, but a tricky one for manager Andy Bellows.

Ferlinghetti, the hero of beat culture who died in February at the age of 101, believed that people should be able to sit and read for hours without buying anything. Accordingly, the shop had around 20 seats on its three levels. However, with the business struggling with pandemic limits and a drop in sales of around 60%, many things had to change.

City Lights is doing so much out-of-towers business that it typically sells more books in July and August than in November and December. There was almost none of this in 2020. The temporary closure of the Vesuvio Cafe next door and the Specs Bar across the street didn’t help either. The future of the business looked dubious until a GoFundMe campaign raised more than $ 510,000.

“We had floors. Flooring, ”Bellows said.

The store has kept its staff, Bellows said, but now opens eight hours a day instead of 14. Customers (no more than 20 at a time) enter through a door, disinfect their hands, and exit through the door at the till. Eight places remain, along with Ferlinghetti’s shield.

A new website aims to increase online sales. And with one attendant at the entrance, another at the exit, and another roaming the shop, Bellows said, “We have more people on the floor than ever before, and there are benefits to that. More interaction with customers. “

And there is this comforting news: Vesuvius was due to reopen last week. Not a word yet on a schedule for specs’.

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San Francisco, which depends on tourists as the Golden Gate Bridge depends on towers and cables, is ready for you. Or almost done.

With the city reopening a few weeks before Southern California due to improved COVID-19 test numbers and vaccination rates, a visitor can now expect busier restaurants, revitalized museums, lower room rates and fewer amenities in hotels, a new Ferris wheel in Golden Gate, Park, and a higher Fisherman’s Wharf Ratio for generations.

However, this image also includes no working cable cars, a locked Coit Tower, eerie silence between the downtown skyscrapers, less fancy grocers in the Ferry Building, and an awkward pause at the entrance to restaurants when guests return.

“Would you like to sit inside or outside?” A host asked for dinner at Gracias Madre restaurant on Mission Street. It was 48 degrees and humid.

“Outside,” said the diner. Every diner had said that – seven tables occupied, all outside. Since March 3rd, restaurants have been able to accommodate customers with 25% of the capacity in-house. A relaxation of 50% is likely by March 31st. However, Server Korina Wilson said, “A lot of people don’t want to sit inside just yet. ”

These cable cars are expected to have at least one of the city’s three lines running in the fall, and trams could return to Embarcadero and Market Streets as early as May.

Is it time to visit? This is your call With restrictions easing across the state, Sacramento health officials still advise against vacationing more than 120 miles from home. In LA County, public health officials are still urging residents to postpone the trip. But these are recommendations now, not mandates.

Although the city’s hotels have been allowed to accept tourists since January 28, around a third were still closed in mid-March.

Here are some voices from San Francisco about what they saw and expected.

Don’t be fooled on Valencia Street

On a cloudy Tuesday afternoon in mid-March, Debbie Horn and her husband Paul Miller were cycling on Valencia Street in the Mission District.

Miller said, “There are so many more people who ride bikes. We’ll be more like Copenhagen and Amsterdam. “

Horn said, “You can people watch more than ever before.”

In Golden Gate Park, the SkyStar Ferris Wheel reopened on March 4, carrying passengers 15 floors above the de Young Museum (reopened March 6) and the California Academy of Sciences (reopened last week). The Japanese tea garden is open to individuals and the guide volunteers are again taking walks.

Although shops and many hotels around Union Square are open and others are soon to follow, the square was so sleepy in mid-March that a mid-week hiker could hear birds chirping and the distant voice of a ragged man asking for money – noises that it could have been drowned out two years ago by cable cars, street musicians and other city rattles.

Room rates in San Francisco are “much lower” than they were two years ago, said Joe D’Allesandro, executive director of the San Francisco Travel Association.

Rooms for less than $ 150 a night are common, but many hotel restaurants are closed and service will be restricted.

But the new energy is bittersweet. Because they have lived in the mission district for years and jointly owned the nearby Royal Cuckoo Organ Lounge, he and Miller know that “even if you see a place that looks like it’s blocked, you’re still likely to lose money.”

“Don’t be fooled,” said Horn. “Everyone is a year behind their bills.”

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopened on March 7th. A few days later, Chief Administrative Officer Noah Bartlett stood near the entrance, remembering the start of the pandemic a year ago.

“We assumed it would be six weeks,” he said. “So naive, right?”

Since then, Bartlett and key museum staff have rescheduled exhibitions, rethought budgets, and mapped “every surface people would come into contact with,” including elevator buttons now covered with self-cleaning NanoSeptic pads.

“We’d like to say that we’re one of the safest indoor experiences anyone can have. You and I can walk through this building without touching anything, ”said Bartlett.

But he also understands that recovery may be slow. The three restaurants in the museum will remain closed. The Moscone Center across the street, once one of the busiest convention venues in the country, is a vaccination center.

Prior to the pandemic, Bartlett said, up to 60% of museum goers came from outside the Bay Area, and daily admissions rarely fell below 2,000. For the reopening, the museum drew around 3,500 visitors over two days.

“The energy has changed,” said Bartlett. “We’re going to stay in a depressed state, I think, probably for a couple of years,” said Bartlett. “It really accelerated our focus on the local audience.”

The museum will shortly be opening an exhibition entitled “Contemporary Optics” on the fifth floor. As an installer was preparing the galleries, Bartlett stepped onto the Oculus Bridge – the showcase walkway that hangs four floors above the museum lobby – and stepped into Olafur Eliasson’s “One-Way Color Tunnel”, which sparkled like purple ice.

This, said Bartlett, is a silver lining: a visitor can now “really gain the experience of the museum insider – time alone with works of art”.

At the Boudin bakery in Fisherman’s Wharf, a baker was standing in the picture window kneading the dough into the shape of a crab. A few yards behind the open door, visitors Dakota Cooley and her wife, Amanda Cooley, sat for breakfast.

“We came from Arizona and only traveled as safely as we can. Which one drives, ”said Amanda.

“It’s the perfect time to drive for someone who doesn’t know this traffic,” said Dakota. “Nobody drives stress from work.”

Since arriving a week earlier, they had admired many churches and architecture by the water, often from their car. It reminds them of Europe, said Amanda, and it’s a world away from Arizona, “where a lot of people don’t want to wear masks”.

In the neighboring blocks, the shops and restaurants at Pier 39 and Ghirardelli Square were open with reduced capacity. The Cooleys’ agenda: Ride a double-decker tour bus and see a cruise to Alcatraz.

Unfortunately, they were a few days early for that. The former prison island, which is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, reopened with limited capacity on Monday after the Cooleys were supposed to be home.

The Sotto Mare restaurant is located on a short stretch of Green Street in North Beach that was a bright spot in the pandemic. The street is full of noise from guests relaxing as several restaurants have their tables grouped outside.

“On the weekends it can take two hours,” said manager Ria Azzolino Pesenti. More than 1,700 companies have signed up for the city’s Shared Spaces program, which allows restaurants and retailers to expand to sidewalks, parking lots and parking lanes. Many restaurants upgrade their patios to last longer and look better.

“We have now seen what is possible,” tweeted Mayor London Breed on March 12th.

In addition to struggling to keep tables three feet apart, Pesenti and her team face challenges with delivery services and Plexiglas partitions (which everyone likes so the restaurant can keep them after the pandemic). Then there is the Cioppino question.

Tourists, who used to make up half of the restaurant’s business, almost always order it because it’s the trademark of Sotto Mare. Locals who have kept the place alive for the past year often choose dabs of sand, scallops, or the fish of the day.

How soon will tourists return and where will they sit? It is impossible to know. But many local Sotto Mare customers are ready to get out of the cold. On March 8th, Pesenti said, “It was the first night we had more people waiting inside than sitting outside.”

On the shelves at City Lights

A few decades ago, co-founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti hand-labeled a sign on the wall of the City Lights bookstore: “Have a seat and read a book.” It’s a great idea, but a tricky one for manager Andy Bellows.

Ferlinghetti, the hero of beat culture who died in February at the age of 101, believed that people should be able to sit and read for hours without buying anything. Accordingly, the shop had around 20 seats on its three levels. However, with the business struggling with pandemic limits and a drop in sales of around 60%, many things had to change.

City Lights is doing so much out-of-towers business that it typically sells more books in July and August than in November and December. There was almost none of this in 2020. The temporary closure of the Vesuvio Cafe next door and the Specs Bar across the street didn’t help either. The future of the business looked dubious until a GoFundMe campaign raised more than $ 510,000.

“We had floors. Flooring, ”Bellows said.

The store has kept its staff, Bellows said, but now opens eight hours a day instead of 14. Customers (no more than 20 at a time) enter through a door, sanitize their hands (so they can freely handle books), and walk through the door at the cash register. Eight places remain, along with Ferlinghetti’s shield.

A new website aims to increase online sales. And with one employee at the entrance, another at the exit, and another roaming the shop, Bellows said, “We have more people on the floor than ever before, and there are advantages to that. More interaction with customers. “

And there is this comforting news: Vesuvius was due to reopen last week. Not a word yet on a schedule for specs’.

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CBS San Francisco Mitarbeiterbericht

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Es ist ein Jahr her, dass die historische Abschaltung von COVID-19 und der Kampf gegen das Virus immer noch unser tägliches Leben beeinflusst. Hier ist eine Zusammenfassung der COVID-Geschichten, die wir am Wochenende veröffentlicht haben.

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Oakland Teachers, School District, stimmt vorläufig dem 30. März zu. Rückkehr in die Klassenzimmer
OAKLAND – Die Schulen in Oakland werden vor Ende März wiedereröffnet, nachdem die Verantwortlichen der Lehrergewerkschaft und des Schulbezirks nach wochenlangen Verhandlungen am Sonntag eine Einigung erzielt haben. Die vorläufige Vereinbarung, die erst dann offiziell wird, wenn sie zuerst von der Oakland Education Association genehmigt und dann vom Oakland Unified School District Board verabschiedet wird, bietet den Schülern weiterhin die Möglichkeit, im Fernunterricht zu bleiben. In der ersten Phase der Vereinbarung werden die persönlichen Klassen am 30. März für Vorschulkinder bis zur 2. Klasse und für vorrangige Schüler wieder aufgenommen. Die zweite Phase wird am 19. April für die Klassen 3-5 wieder aufgenommen und mindestens eine Sekundarstufe wird später festgelegt. Der Distrikt kündigte die vorläufige Vereinbarung am späten Sonntagabend kurz vor Mitternacht in einer Pressemitteilung an. Die Gewerkschaft wird voraussichtlich diese Woche über die Vereinbarung abstimmen und, falls sie genehmigt wird, vor der Bezirksschulbehörde abstimmen. Weiterlesen

Der National Park Service eröffnet den öffentlichen Zugang zur Insel Alcatraz wieder
SAN FRANCISCO – Langsam werden San Franciscos berühmte Touristenziele wiedereröffnet, nachdem sie fast ein Jahr lang wegen der COVID-19-Pandemie geschlossen wurden. Die berühmten Seilbahnen der Stadt werden noch in diesem Jahr in Betrieb genommen, während die Insel Alcatraz am Montag mit Einschränkungen wiedereröffnet wird. Die erste Fähre, die Besucher zur berühmten Gefängnisinsel beförderte, sollte um 10 Uhr morgens die Docks verlassen. Der Nationalparkdienst gab an, dass Besucher, die Gesichtsmasken tragen und soziale Distanz pflegen müssen, eine Grenze von 25 Prozent haben würden. Der Zugang zu den Außenbereichen der Insel, einschließlich Eagle Plaza, Sally Port, Recreation Yard und historischen Gärten, steht allen Besuchern offen. Während Führungen durch das Zellenhaus eine Anmeldung vor dem Besuch erfordern. Weiterlesen

Stammgäste im Restaurant begrüßen die Rückkehr des Indoor Dining in Concord
CONCORD – Da die Grafschaften Contra Costa und Sonoma am Sonntag in die rote Reihe rücken, können die Menschen jetzt in der gesamten Bay Area nur noch begrenzt in Innenräumen speisen. Nur weil Unternehmen ihre Türen öffnen könnten, heißt das noch lange nicht, dass sie es getan haben. Es war ein Tag, auf den so viele gewartet hatten: ein neuer Anfang, der erste Tag, an dem sie drinnen in Restaurants essen konnten. Im La Pinata in Concord war das Frühstücksbuffet weg, aber der Stammgast Ricardo Perez bekam eine seiner geliebten mexikanischen Bloody Marys. “Ich liebe es”, sagte er. „Es wird langsam aber sicher wieder normal, weißt du? Das ist es, was wir alle wollen, ehrlich gesagt, wir wollen zur Normalität zurückkehren. Ja, wir müssen manchmal Masken tragen, aber weißt du was, das ist ein großartiger Anfang! Es war vielleicht ein guter Start, aber es war auch ein langsamer. Die Wahlbeteiligung war gering, und während Ricardo Tonda es zu schätzen wusste, dass seine Tochter ihn zum Frühstück mitnahm, hätte er es vorgezogen, im Freien zu essen. Weiterlesen

San Francisco erweitert die Berechtigung für COVID-Impfstoffe auf HIV, Taubheit und Behinderungen
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco wird es Menschen mit HIV ermöglichen, sich impfen zu lassen, zusammen mit Menschen, die sich als taub oder behindert identifizieren, beginnend am Montag, wenn Kalifornien die Anzahl der Einwohner, die für den Coronavirus-Impfstoff in Frage kommen, für Menschen mit bestimmten signifikanten medizinischen Medikamenten mit hohem Risiko öffnet Bedingungen oder Behinderungen. Schätzungsweise 4,4 Millionen Kalifornier erfüllen die staatlichen Kriterien, darunter wichtigere Arbeitnehmer, Menschen, die in Gefängnissen arbeiten oder leben, Obdachlosenunterkünfte und andere Orte in der Gemeinde sowie Menschen mit Behinderungen und gesundheitlichen Problemen, die sie einem schweren COVID-19-Risiko aussetzen. San Francisco geht über die Zulassungsregeln des Staates hinaus, indem es Entwicklungsstörungen, medizinische, körperliche, sensorische oder verhaltensbedingte Gesundheitsstörungen abdeckt, einschließlich schwerer psychischer Gesundheits- oder Substanzstörungen, berichtete die San Francisco Chronicle am Sonntag. Weiterlesen

Junioren, Senioren, die zum Frühjahrssemester auf den Stanford Campus eingeladen wurden
STANFORD – Angesichts der rückläufigen neuen COVID-19-Fälle in Santa Clara County haben Beamte der Stanford University beschlossen, Junioren und Senioren für das Frühjahrssemester auf den Campus einzuladen. Das Semester beginnt am 29. März und wird das erste Mal sein, dass Oberschichtler seit Beginn der Pandemie vor einem Jahr auf dem Campus waren. Die zurückkehrenden Schüler müssen sich regelmäßigen COVID-19-Tests unterziehen, und die meisten Klassen bleiben fern. “Wir sind zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass die Bedingungen es unterstützen, Junioren und Senioren die Möglichkeit zu bieten, für das Frühjahrsquartal auf den Campus zurückzukehren, wobei Systeme und Schutzmaßnahmen zum Schutz der Gesundheit unserer Gemeinde vorhanden sind”, heißt es in einer Ankündigung der Universität. “Wir werden alle in unserer Gemeinde brauchen, um weiterhin ihren Teil dazu beizutragen, die Gesundheit und Sicherheit des anderen zu unterstützen.” Weiterlesen

Downtown Walnut Creek Abuzz als Contra Costa County in die rote Ebene übergeht
WALNUT CREEK – Die Bewohner von Contra Costa schlossen sich am Sonntag anderen in der San Francisco Bay Area an und konnten nun Mahlzeiten im Innenbereich und andere neue Freiheiten genießen, als die Grafschaft in die COVID-19 Red Tier einzog. In fast jeder Ecke, in jedem Parklet und auf jedem Bürgersteig herrschte am Samstagabend reges Treiben in der Innenstadt von Walnut Creek. „Ich habe sie angerufen und dachte:‚ Seid ihr Indoor-Dining, und er ist wie nein, und ich bin wie, aber du gehst Sonntag … und er ist so, als wüsstest du schon davon, und ich bin so, ja, jeder schaut sich alles an. Sagte Kimberly Jacob von Vallejo. “Ich denke, die Leute sind einfach froh, rauszukommen und frische Luft zu schnappen.” Weiterlesen

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Hunderte versammeln sich in San Jose, um Asiaten und Inselbewohner im Pazifik bei Angriffen zu unterstützen
SAN JOSE – Eine Kundgebung in San Jose am Samstagmorgen zog Hunderte aus der ganzen South Bay an, um die Angriffe auf asiatische Einwohner anzuprangern. Jetzt wird zunehmend gefordert, dass asiatische und pazifische Inselbewohner (AAPI) aufhören zu schweigen. Als das Geräusch von Taiko-Trommeln über den Rathausplatz von San Jose donnerte, lag auch der Trommelschlag der Veränderung in der Luft. Angesichts der Tatsache, dass Asiaten und Inselbewohner im Pazifik rassistisch motivierten gewalttätigen Angriffen ausgesetzt sind, wird deutlich, dass das kulturelle Ethos des Schweigens ihnen nicht gut tut. “Als junger Einwanderer vor etwa 40 Jahren habe ich diese Kommentare gehört”, sagte Phan Ngo, Polizeichef von Sunnyvale. “Sprechen Sie Englisch, Sie verdammter Ausländer!” Geh zurück nach Hause! ‘”Lesen Sie mehr

Familien, Lehrer marschieren bei Kundgebungen in der Bay Area und fordern die Wiedereröffnung der Schulen
WALNUT CREEK – Der Samstag war ein landesweiter Aktionstag, an dem ein Jahr lang geschlossene Schulen geschlossen wurden und eine vollständige Wiedereröffnung des Unterrichts gefordert wurde. Es ist eine Bewegung, die an Dynamik zu gewinnen scheint. “Ich war wirklich ermutigt zu sehen, wie viele Menschen angefangen haben aufzustehen und zu sagen und darauf hinzuweisen, was für uns alle Eltern in der Stadt offensichtlich ist, nämlich dass unsere Kinder in der Schule sein müssen”, sagte San Francisco Elternteil Suprya Ray bei einer Kundgebung in der Stadt Samstagmorgen. Die Demonstranten starteten am Alamo-Platz und marschierten zum Rathaus. Sogar einige derjenigen, die an der Kampagne zur Wiedereröffnung von Klassenzimmern beteiligt waren, waren von der Wahlbeteiligung angenehm überrascht. “Eltern sind die Gruppe, die am meisten von dieser Pandemie betroffen ist. Wir wurden gerade aus jeder Perspektive verprügelt”, sagte Siva Raj. “Die Tatsache, dass so viele tatsächlich Zeit finden, es hier zu schaffen, zeigt, wie viel Frustration es in der Elterngemeinschaft gibt.” Weiterlesen

Der Kongressabgeordnete von South Bay gibt bekannt, wie die Mittel des Rescue Act die Bay Area erreichen
SAN JOSE – Kaliforniens Grafschaften und Großstädte können nach vorläufigen Informationen des Büros von US-Repräsentant Ro Khanna damit rechnen, Geld aus dem American Rescue Plan Act von 2021 in zwei Teilen zu erhalten, wobei der erste innerhalb von 60 Tagen ab Donnerstag erfolgt. Das US-Finanzministerium wird den zweiten Teil ein Jahr später auszahlen. Städte mit weniger als 50.000 Einwohnern erhalten das Geld nach einer Auszahlung durch das Finanzministerium vom Staat. Alameda County erhält 324 Millionen US-Dollar, Oakland 192 Millionen US-Dollar. Berkeley erhält 68,3 Millionen US-Dollar. Weiterlesen

Heath-Beamte sind zunehmend optimistisch, COVID-19 Green Tier in diesem Jahr zu erreichen
SAN FRANCISCO – Mit der Verabreichung von Einzelimpfstoffen von Johnson & Johnson an Massenimpfstellen in Los Angeles und Oakland wurden die staatlichen Gesundheitsbehörden optimistischer, wann Kalifornien die grüne Stufe erreichen wird. Während sich die grüne Stufe derzeit nicht auf der farbcodierten, gleitenden COVID-19-Wiedereröffnungsskala des Staates befindet, wird sie bald hinzugefügt. Die Landkreise Alameda, San Francisco, Marin, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Napa und Solano gehören ab Freitag zur Roten Stufe. Die Landkreise Contra Costa und Sonoma werden hoffentlich nächste Woche der Roten Stufe zugewiesen. Dr. Mark Ghaly, Kaliforniens Gesundheitsminister, sagte, er habe das Gefühl, dass Grafschaften, die die Grüne Stufe erreichen, bis zum Herbst 2021 eintreten könnten. Lesen Sie mehr

Die Lichter der Freitagnacht leuchten über der Bay Area mit der Rückkehr des High School Football
OAKLEY – März ist normalerweise nicht die Jahreszeit für Fußball, aber die Lichter der Freitagnacht sind wieder an, da die Schulen in der Bay Area versuchen, eine Saison zu retten. In Oakley war der 12. März das erste Fußballspiel am Freitagabend seit ungefähr einem Jahr, und während alles auf dem Spielfeld ziemlich normal aussah, war dies auf den Tribünen nicht der Fall. Sie waren praktisch leer, bis auf ein paar Leute, die spezielle Tickets für das Spiel bekamen. “Die meisten von uns haben zwei Jahre auf das Spiel gewartet, es ist aufregend und macht Spaß”, sagte Vincent Nunley, Senior im Team der Freedom High School, das am Freitagabend Campolindo in Oakley veranstaltete. Die Teams müssen wöchentlich testen, um am Spieltag fit zu sein. Es geht nicht nur um den Fußball. Das Jubelteam versuchte, eine gedämpfte Menge in Freedom High zu versammeln. Nach den Richtlinien der öffentlichen Gesundheit waren Fans größtenteils nicht erlaubt. Weiterlesen

Gemeindevorsteher in der Bay Area sagen, dass viele Angriffe auf asiatische Amerikaner nicht gemeldet werden
OAKLAND – Bay Area Asiatische Gemeindevorsteher sagten, die jüngsten Angriffe gegen Senioren seien nur die Spitze des Eisbergs. Sie sagten, Opfer melden die Verbrechen oft nicht der Polizei. So wie das Video von George Floyd die Amerikaner gezwungen hat zu sehen, dass die Brutalität der Polizei gegen schwarze Amerikaner ein echtes Problem ist, zeigen die jüngsten Videos, dass unprovozierte Angriffe auf asiatische Senioren ein weiteres ernstes Problem sind, mit dem sie sich auseinandersetzen müssen. “Mit diesen Videos sehen die Leute endlich, dass es tatsächlich passiert”, sagte Carl Chan, Präsident der Handelskammer von Oakland Chinatown. Er sagte, solche Angriffe gehen Jahrzehnte zurück. Neu ist, dass sie jetzt vor der Kamera gefangen sind und es mit den sozialen Medien für die Menschen einfacher ist, sie zu sehen und zu teilen und sich zu organisieren, um die Ungerechtigkeit auszurufen. Weiterlesen

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Trotz J & J-Dosen bestehen weiterhin Probleme mit der Impfstoffknappheit in der Bay Area – “Nur nicht genug Versorgung”
DALY CITY – Egal, ob Sie in den Landkreisen San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda oder Marin einen COVID-Schuss bekommen, die Geschichte ist oft dieselbe: Es gibt nicht genug Dosen, um herumzukommen. “Heute besteht die Hauptbeschränkung darin, dass wir einfach nicht genug Versorgung haben”, sagte Dr. Grant Colfax vom San Francisco County Department of Public Health. In Daly City erhielten am Freitagnachmittag 300 wichtige Arbeiter eine Moderna-Dosis, nachdem die Bezirksleiter sagten, das Eigenkapital der Postleitzahl des Staates sei hier gescheitert. „Ich respektiere den Staat, ich respektiere den Gouverneur, aber wir machen das nach Postleitzahlen, richtig? In San Mateo County, wo wir Daly City haben, wo wir East Palo Alto haben, wo wir Landarbeiter an der Küste haben – wir hatten Null, die innerhalb dieser Postleitzahlen qualifiziert waren, um diese zusätzlichen Dosen zu erhalten “, sagte der Präsident des San Mateo County Aufsichtsrat, David Canepa. Weiterlesen

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