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Nurses Miniimahe and Megan prep for a patient to be tested at the West Berkeley testing site. Photo: Pete RososAnyone who lives or works in Berkeley and has COVID-19 symptoms can now call the city to request an appointment to get tested, the city announced Wednesday afternoon.Those symptoms include cough, shortness of breath, fever, chills,…

UC Berkeley public health professors are launching a major study of people in the East Bay who show no coronavirus symptoms but could have it. Photo: Google Street View It’s common knowledge that someone can be infected with COVID-19 without showing symptoms: That’s why we’re wearing masks, shouting to healthy neighbors from across the street…

Berkeleyside is sharing this message from city of Berkeley Health Officer Dr. Lisa Hernandez. It was published Friday evening and appears below in full. Today, I issued an Order mandating the use of face coverings for everyone especially customers and workers in essential businesses so that infected people without symptoms don’t unintentionally spread COVID-19. While…

FILE -- San Francisco Mayor London Breed, speaks about new measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, in San Francisco, Monday, March 16, 2020. Breed announced a shelter in place order days before the rest of California and nearly a week before New York. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) less FILE -- San Francisco…