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When Jyri Engestrom, a 42-year-old entrepreneur who runs a small early stage venture fund in San Francisco, California, read an article in the Guardian newspaper about an Italian village that tested its entire community for the novel coronavirus and was reportedly able to eradicate the virus by doing so, he was inspired.Engestrom wanted to do the…

The Southern California housing market has seized up. The coronavirus outbreak has closed businesses and kept people hunkered down in their homes. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s also resulted in a market that experts describe as essentially frozen. Data released Thursday from real estate company Zillow show the number of deals entering escrow has fallen off a…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox.  Sign up here.A barbershop and a hair salon in the same northern California town decided to defy the statewide stay-at-home order by opening for business amid the coronavirus public health crisis, according to a report Wednesday.It comes the same day Gov. Gavin Newsom…

County health officials around California reported more deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday than any single day since the outbreak began. And while the surge wasn’t fueled by the Bay Area, the region wasn’t spared, either. The death toll in the state rose to 1,433, while the number of confirmed cases climbed to 37,679, according to…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.California lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are requesting details from Gov. Gavin Newsom regarding a $1 billion deal to buy hundreds of millions of coronavirus protective masks from a Chinese manufacturer, according to a report.Two weeks after announcing…