Berkeley Public Health Division

Alameda County hosted a COVID-19 community update webinar Tuesday where health experts spoke on the details of California’s recent economic reopening.

Since the closing of Berkeley public schools more than a year and a half ago, parents of middle and high school students have organized to reopen classrooms and in-person instruction.

With the return to in-person instruction under a hybrid model, Berkeley Unified School District confirmed multiple positive COVID-19 cases in the past week.

While reopening will not occur just yet, transitional kindergarten, or TK, through sixth-grade schools in Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, have been permitted to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Additional COVID-19 testing sites are opening up for Berkeley residents and UC Berkeley students at various locations, which include the gym at University Village in Albany and mobile testing pop-up sites outside of both Berkeley Bowl locations.

Without the ability to practice as a team and with little information about when they might be able to, the Bears have turned to personal workouts and team Zoom calls, the new normal for most Cal sports programs.

After a surge of COVID-19 cases in the Bay Area, the Silverado Berkeley Memory Care Community experienced an outbreak among its residents and staff.

UC Berkeley released a campus recovery framework Friday for the spring 2021 semester regarding campus activities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Berkeley Public Health Division identified another 100 COVID-19 cases associated with Golden Gate Fields, a horse racetrack on the city's San Francisco Bay waterfront, upon a second round of comprehensive testing.

A mismatch of priority is at play — why are so much time and effort being poured into helping a nonessential sport take the field?