Is not doing enough to comply with the new ordinance required homeless residents to be placed into bank and hotel rooms. There are now more than 60,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus here in california. Unfortunately, 95 more people died yesterday. Bringing the number of deaths statewide 2 2400. The number of people in hospitals, and intensive care units is down slightly from yesterday. And over 809,000 californians have now been tested for the virus. Governor newsom today, announced the expansion of work ins compensation benectors of ion is. Intended so that people go back to work, and contract the virus. They can worry less about staying at home. The worst thing we can do is have a worker that has tested positive but doesnt want to tell anybody. And can spread the disease, because he or she cant afford not to work. More workplaces and businesses will begin reopening across the state on friday, under what is being called stage two of the safety and hygiene protocols. Governor newsom s
The Public Health Department Said there are more than 1,000 beds available no the 11 hospitals as well as almost 400 ventilators. Other shows how many have been tested for coronavirus and the number of those that have come back positive. Right now that is about 12 . The county wants people to have that information in as close to realtime as possible. We have doing everything we can to make sure we are ready for any surge when it happens. The only way that we can ensure we have the public trust is by being transparent about our efforts. And the governor is now speaking, giving the statewide update encore h1n1 efforts. Lets listen in. Freeenterprise for what it is, a healthy horse pulling a sturdy aginnstochurchill saying them, particularly milli filing for Unemployment Insurance. With the headlines that we have seen as a trend line for the last few weeks and march 12th of this year we started to see applications for Unemployment Insurance here in the state of california skyrocket. Now o
Virus pandemic. Well bring you the News Conference as soon as it gets underway live. We know there are 10,000 cases here in california. More than 2700 of those cases are right here in the pay area. Los angeles county is the hardesthit in our state followed by santa clara county. New unemployment i numbers are breaking records for the second week in a row. According to a new ap poll, half of working americans say they or a household member have lost income due to the current pandemic. The president also and some members of congress now considering another nick relief bill. Others as a cow that needs to be milked. Not enough people see Free Enterprise for what it actually s. A healthy horse pulling a rds today, and i couldnt at this moment particularly with the National Headlines and 6. 6 million americans filing for Unemployment Insurance. With the headlines that we have seen as a trend line for the last few weeks. March 12th of this year, we started to see applications for Unemployment
Noem held a town hall taking questions on the states response to the coronavirus pandemic. The state is one of few without a stay at home order. 518 meatpacking plant workers tested positive for covid19. South dakota public broadcasting posted the town hall. Hello and welcome to a covid 19 special. South dakotas have a lot of questions about the coronavirus. They also have questions about the decisions being made in an effort to slow down the spread. Joining me to help answer some of those questions live, we have governor kristi noem, secretary with the south Dakota Department commissionerd the of the Governors Office of Economic Development. Welcome to all of you. Thank you. We are going to continue to take questions tonight. You can send those via text or email. Our phone number to send a text 67372. We are going to get started. We have been receiving questions for the last day and a half. All of those that we will be asking tonight have come from south dakotas except this first one.
Chair mar good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, february 20 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by Committee Member supervisor matt haney and supervisor raphael mandelman, who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here. Id like to thank john carroll, our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors february 26 agenda. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair mar this item was continued from the last g. A. O. Meeting on february 6 and is sponsored by supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Supervisor haney thank you