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 (CBS SF) — A sharp rise in COVID-19 cases in San Francisco along with spiking cases and hospitalizations statewide and across the U.S. has prompted the city to roll back a number of reopenings, including indoor dining and indoor instruction at high schools not already reopened. Starting at 11:59 p.m. Friday, the city would temporarily halt all indoor dining, reduce the capacity of fitness centers and movie theaters, and pause the reopening of indoor instruction at high schools that have not already opened, although the Department of Public Health said it would work with high schools that want to reopen in an outdoor setting. Middle and elementary schools will remain open for in-class instruction. San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the city’s Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax announced the changes Tuesday afternoon amid a 250% increase in COVID-19 cases in the city since the beginning of October. “I know this is not the news our residents and businesses wanted to h...