San Francisco declares state of emergency

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 19, 2021 12:43 am

SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco's mayor on Friday (Saturday in Manila) declared a state of emergency in a downtown district reeling from a severe spike in fatal drug overdoses driven mainly by fentanyl.

The Tenderloin neighborhood, just south of tourist and shopping hotspot Union Square, has emerged as the city's epicenter of an opioid crisis that has surged across the nation.

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