San Francisco News

 The state-mandated nightly curfew looming for most of the Bay Area on Saturday prompted shrugs, groans of despair and cries for help Friday. With most of the Bay Area’s businesses, including restaurants and bars, already shut down by 10 p.m. during the pandemic, most don’t expect much of an impact. And few folks are decrying the loss of nightlife, which has largely been in hibernation since March. “It won’t affect me,” said Alisha Ponce, 27, a medical assistant who works at UC Berkeley student health service and lives in Antioch. “I’ll just go home and do nothing after work — as usual.” The 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew starts Saturday night in every Bay Area county but San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo, which so far are exempt. San Francisco officials, however, said Friday they expect they will have to join the curfew within days. The curfew, for counties that fall into the purple tier, the state’s most-restrictive category for counties during the coronavirus , is expected to last a...

 San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Monday the city is falling back to the red tier in California's reopening plan. With cases surging, S.F. is temporarily rolling back the reopening of all non-essential offices, which had opened at 25% capacity on Oct. 27. It's also reducing the capacity of fitness centers and gyms to 10%, down from 25%. “We need to make these hard choices now so that we can save lives and keep our healthcare system from becoming overwhelmed,” Breed said in a statement. “In addition to these rollbacks, we need everyone to do their part to get COVID-19 under control, especially as we go into the holiday season. I know that people want to spend time with their family and friends this Thanksgiving, but this year we need to all stay home as much as possible, avoid unnecessary travel, and avoid gathering with people who don’t live with us.” With its new red status, the city fell back two tiers, as it was previously in the least-restrictive yellow tier and...