Watch: Gavin Newsom draws second round of California vaccine lottery winners

Gov. Gavin Newsom is hosting California’s second vaccine lottery drawing at a Friday morning press conference in San Diego County.

You can watch the livestreamed video here:

The winners picked Friday will each receive $50,000. He will be joined by one of the winners picked in last week’s drawing.

Officials were able to reach 13 of the 15 winners selected in last week’s drawing, California Department of Health spokeswoman Sami Gallegos said. They made several attempts to reach the other two winners Gallegos said, and told them in “very explicit” terms of a Thursday deadline to respond or forfeit their $50,000 prize, but were unable to reach them.

Officials picked two alternate winners from Monterey and Sacramento counties Thursday and began contacting them by email, text and phone calls. They’ve reached the Monterey winner and were still trying to reach the Sacramento winner Friday morning, Gallegos said

Next Tuesday, the state will select its 10 grand prize winners, who will each receive $1.5 million.

This story was originally published June 11, 2021 at 10:25 AM.