April 21, 2020 Media Brief
Coronavirus
Voice of OC: OC tinkers with opening beaches; masks required for retail workers
The discussion took place as the County released new numbers Tuesday afternoon: The virus has killed 33 out of 1,691 confirmed cases. There’s also 148 people hospitalized, including 54 people in intensive care units.
OC Register: Laguna Beach mayor calls for urgent closure of open county beaches
With unseasonably warm temperatures expected later this week, Laguna Beach Mayor Bob Whalen is urgently asking the county to close its remaining south Orange County beaches. In a Monday, April 20, letter to Supervisor Lisa Bartlett, who oversees the Fifth District, Whalen asked the Board of Supervisors to close the beaches and trailheads.
Voice of OC: Growing protests in OC over stay at home orders raise enforcement questions
With an assortment of Orange County residents engaging in active protests of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay home orders this past week, questions are beginning to arise about how local law enforcement will handle enforcement of the orders as well as defiance.
Voice of OC: Coronavirus strikes at least 12 OC nursing facilities
The coronavirus has struck at least 12 nursing homes in Orange County, according to incomplete state data. Of the 1,224 skilled nursing facilities in the state, the California Dept. of Public Health (CDPH) reported 258 of them to have coronavirus cases among patients, staff or both as of Monday.
Voice of OC: Santa Ana will revisit two controversial development projects on same night
A push by residents to overturn a much-contested apartment project, and a developer’s wish to make changes to a tower that’s been in development for more than a decade, means Santa Ana officials will revisit two of the city’s most controversial projects at the same meeting tonight.
California
KTLA: Gov. Newsom to respond to calls for state to reopen amid virus crisis
On Tuesday morning, the governor again urged people to continue to follow stay-at-home orders, resisting demands from demonstrators who have called for California to reopen during a series of protests across the state.
ABC7: Onward CA has thousands of job listings, essential services to help Californians
OnwardCA.org is a web-based resource that connects workers who have lost their jobs to life essential services - so, grocery, money, shelter, child care to training opportunities, and then, of course to jobs. The idea is to see if we can shorten the period of unemployment.
Nation
Associated Press: Trump vows to ‘suspend’ immigration to US because of virus
Returning to a divisive issue at a time of national crisis, President Donald Trump says he will sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States” because of the coronavirus.
Publication Date: April 21, 2020
