This is BUSD’s first COVID-19 outbreak since the start of the pandemic. The city asked the district to pause tryouts for all sports but hybrid learning will continue as normal.
The BESS ran from November to April this year, and remained open 24 hours a day with reduced capacity.
With all adults now eligible, community clinics are helping make vaccine distribution more equitable, but supply problems could crop up again.
On April 12, students in grades 3-5 went back five days per week and middle schoolers began hybrid learning.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has less than a one in a million chance of severe side effects, but the city is pausing its administration out of an abundance of caution.
Nearly half of all Berkeley residents have gotten at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 30% of the city’s population is fully vaccinated.
LifeLong Medical Care’s street medicine team has vaccinated 35 people in the park so far.
Religious institutions are offering COVID-19 vaccines to their communities in familiar settings.
Berkeley Unified and the teachers’ union reached an agreement Tuesday on a hybrid learning schedule.
White families are opting for in-person instruction at higher rates than Black and Latinx families.
Teachers are looking forward to seeing students again, but there are safety concerns and the rhetoric of the reopening debate has taken its toll.
Parents worry that distance learners are more likely to be stuck with a substitute than students on-campus, especially a substitute without experience teaching online.
California is expected to announce Tuesday that Alameda County can move into the orange tier, meaning Berkeley could open bars and expand several other business operations.
The County and Berkeley will enter red tier next week if they can sustain low case rates, making several businesses eligible to reopen indoors.
The law goes into effect immediately and applies to larger grocery stores with 300 or more employees.
Lasagna Love is a grassroots campaign that matches volunteer home cooks with anyone struggling during the pandemic who could use a free, hot meal.
Oakland grocery workers are getting a substantial hazard pay raise starting immediately.
We spoke to several East Bay specialty liquor retailers to find out how the pandemic has affected business.
Curative, the private company running the site, is concerned about the liability of using volunteers at the Golden Gate Fields site.
Vaccine appointments at Golden Gate Fields are currently hard to come by.
The North County Mass Vaccination Site is in the north parking lot of Golden Gate Fields. Appointments can be made online.
“COVID-19 concerns on the campus have decreased to levels to allow the resumption of live racing,” Golden Gate Fields said Friday in a prepared statement.
More than 300 people at Golden Gate Fields have now tested positive for COVID-19. The racetrack has approximately 540 workers, the state has said.
Free rides for South Berkeley residents are available through the South Berkeley Mutual Aid Project and fully vaccinated drivers are encouraged to volunteer.
Berkeley can use the money to help pay for emergency COVID-19 operations, infrastructure improvements and more.
Restaurants, museums, movie theaters and gyms can reopen indoor operations at reduced capacity, starting Wednesday.
The city of Berkeley will help businesses and artists impacted by the coronavirus and is taking steps to help the homeless, seniors, and single parents, among others.
The outbreak of COVID-19 is now a global pandemic. People should take it seriously, yet also be wary of alarmist panic.
COVID-19 is also threatening a local economic crisis, which may affect the viability of Berkeley’s small businesses. Here are some steps we can take to help out.
Dr. Rita Ng answers common questions about vaccines in Alameda County.
Visitors will be able to view the spectacular retrospective of the quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins, an exhibit once scheduled to close in December.
The Oakland mass vaccination operation will not close. Meanwhile, Governor Newsom announced California will say goodbye to colored COVID-19 tiers.
There are hints that a local entity may take over from a federal agency, but nothing concrete.
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