As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage.
Since the start of the fall semester, testing across campus has nearly halved, according to the campus Coronavirus Dashboard. For undergraduates, testing is less than half of what it was in August.
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A lot has changed in Berkeley’s housing landscape since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Housing prices have increased, while residents have had to adapt to ongoing policy changes.
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An elementary school in Marin County experienced an outbreak of the COVID-19 delta variant, associated with a teacher who was unvaccinated and unmasked at times.
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Researchers from UC Berkeley and the UC Nutrition Policy Institute published a report on Aug. 6 detailing the development and implementation of the Food and Beverage Choices, or FBC, policy on campus.
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As the fall semester draws near and COVID-19 variants cast uncertainty on reopening plans, a virtual panel of UC Berkeley health experts addressed questions about what the changing COVID-19 landscape means for the campus community.
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Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín hosted a town hall Monday to provide updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and the delta variant, as well as to answer questions about the health order requiring masks in indoor public spaces.
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All Berkeley residents, regardless of vaccination status, will be required to wear masks in indoor public settings beginning Aug. 3 under a new order issued Monday by city public health officer Lisa Hernandez.
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Governments must stop propping up animal agriculture via taxpayer subsidies and instead put funding toward a more sustainable food system — one where we don’t have to hurt animals.
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As vaccination rates increase and the rate of new COVID-19 cases decreases across California, the state has moved forward with sweeping reopening plans — impeded, however, by the rise in cases of the virus’s highly contagious delta variant.
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Alameda County hosted a COVID-19 community update webinar Tuesday where health experts spoke on the details of California’s recent economic reopening.
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