Absolutely. I understand that most workers are also categorized as essential workers, but at the moment, a lot of our buildings are still closed. How has your staff been redeployed to help out during the pandemic . There are 100 people assigned as Emergency Operations centres. They have worked on everything ranging from finance and logistics to accounting, to a communications. We have also had some of our staff been reassigned where we had people who were working within the bureau and we had them redeployed within the street cleaning groups. We are trying to solve problems as best we can. Some city interior painters would normally be working inside city buildings and have been repurposed to work outside and remove graffiti. Yeah, and that really and that is also a good example of trying to find ways that we can use those same individuals, those same skill sets but use them in a way that is safe. The one thing we have learned throughout this process with covid and shelter in place is th
Just. A critical element in fighting coronavirus this communication. I merely for the most unwelcome we start in greece where 5000 migrants have moved into a new temporary camp on the island of les potts more than 12000 migrants have been sleeping out in the open since fires destroyed the islands morea migrant camp where they had been staying many have been reluctant to enter the new camp as they fear they could be detained there for months to come. D. W. Correspondent next sunday has met a one man has set up a makeshift soup kitchen in the wake of the mario fire. Its 2 hours until lunch time cost us policeman openness and his team have to hurry theyre cooking for about 2000 people today outdoors and with the most basic equipment not an easy task. Its quite often i often have difficulties with the high winds and we need more helpers to come here to join us george today he thought aki is on the menu greek noodles with vegetables the meals are provided by a volunteer Organization Called
We have been working with the unhoused community and the city more broadly doing things like something to identify and design and construct a safe sleeping sights. We have been helping other areas like helping to do some of the prep for the testing centres that are all over the city now. We have also been helping to retrofit and design some of the medical facilities. We are prepared to address the surge if and when that does happen. We have also been working on the aberration side where we have been able to double the program. [indiscernible] its just some of the things that we are regarding specifically to covid, but then on top of that, we have been doing our daytoday work that we always do in helping to resolve some of the and the encampments across the city, working with the city to make sure we are doing extra cleaning at the food stations in areas where they are trying to distribute food. And its something that we have been doing more recently which is imparting with our colleagu
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Leader Boris Johnson is accused of embarrassing been nation over breaks it by true former Prime Minister its been. My only concern was to get my books out so that i can study and sit my examination is and will meet the sudanese students determined to succeed in the face of devastating floods and in sport i mean our soccer has won the u. S. Open title for a 2nd time the japanese player coming back from a set down to beat Victoria Azarenka in the fall. But we start this news hour in bella bruce where theres been an escalation in violence against protesters the governments has now shut down the countrys internet. While tens of thousands of protesters have flooded the sensor over capital men sgt making their way to one of the president ial compounds that the. We say they have detained at least 250 people protesters are demanding the resignation of president Alexander Lukashenko lets get the latest now from aljazeera step virus and she joins us there on the phone from minsk because the ince