Europe is no wrestling with coronavirus all over again and hoping to defeat it without shutting down public life entirely. Earlier we spoke to the chair of the global outbreak alert and Response Network at the w. H. O. Dale fisher and we asked him how prepared countries are for a possible winter spike in coverage 1000. 00 cases its a funny question to be asking in september is and. Its really quite disappointing i guess to have these sort of numbers going into the colder months and as youve just pointed out that there really need to be some things done to bring these numbers down or else youre going to be right back where where you were. In in much and. Theres nothing fancy its all the same things that weve known about for a long time its a solution of cases and strict quarantining of of contacts we should be able to do much more efficient contact try saying different mechanisms and the other thing which we we didnt know at the beginning of this outbreak was the effectiveness of mosque
A new zealand recorded 0 new code 1000 infections on tuesday there are now only 61. 00 registered active cases in the country. If youre just joining us youre watching to debut new special coverage as we track the opening of the general debate at the u. N. General Assembly Meeting in new york and we have some live pictures of whats happening at the moment coming up in the next 15 to 20 minutes were expecting the head of the state head of state of the host country of course u. S. President donald trump who will be delivering a video message President Trump is a harsh critic of the United Nations so bill will be watching to see what he has to say this is a very different u. N. General assembly this year around the World Leaders to live delivering their message via video because of coronavirus restrictions as we said we will return to the u. N. When it is time for President Trumps speech. That was the one from london with a chair of the European Parliament Justice Committee meanwhile the r
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Supervisor fewer thank you very much for your early support. I wanted to say that, these amendments before you today were developed by really on the ground experts. That build 100 Affordable Housing. They know that Affordable Housing at 3000 square feet will not be built. This is a practical experience for people who built Affordable Housing. Thats why were changing in the legislation today from 10,000 square feet to 8000 square feet. I wanted to add that with this other amendment is making the threshold at 50 feet, that they can also add three stories of density or height to their development on top of the 50foot baseline height. I think i was very remiss in not thanking my outstanding legislative aid and your outstanding aid. Kudos for all their help on this. I think it is something that the west side supervisors are looking at the lack of Affordable Housing in our district and looking for ways to build. There are 100 Affordable Housing. Some people said its the thing of the past. We