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Day Around the Bay: COVID-19 Cases Surge In California, Up More Than 3%
SFist • • health
Key Points:
- Visa has laid off approximately 2,600 employees, about 7% of its workforce, primarily impacting its technology and product teams; the number of affected Bay Area employees remains unclear.
- Charli XCX will host a special Q&A event at Amoeba Music in San Francisco on August 7 for fans who preorder her album "Music, Fashion, Film," ahead of her Outside Lands opening day performance.
- Animate, an anime pop-up shop, is scheduled to open in late August inside the New People Theatre in San Francisco's Japantown.
- California is experiencing a COVID-19 surge, with the positivity rate rising to 3.4% from just over 1% a month ago.
- A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck the Kumamoto area in southern Japan, killing at least 13 people and causing a mall’s second floor to collapse.
