Workers face layoffs and uncertainty as virus’s damage threatens to ripple through economy
Until this week, Chris Day managed Kon-Tiki, a tropical-themed bar and restaurant popular with the after-work crowd in downtown Oakland. On Monday night, that all changed, as the Bay Area came under a shelter-in-place order meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Day, 36, along with most of the staff, was laid off immediately.
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