Now now the selloff [ applause ] wasnt due entirely to coronavirus. It was also due in large part to war over oil prices launched by saudi arabia still, a l o understandably worried and while theres no reason to panic, governments across the world are taking extreme measures to mitigate the outbreak over the weekend, italy put millions of people on lockdown in regions hit hardest by the outbreak where people were rushing to catch the last trains leaving milan before the lockdown took effect officials in italy putting 16 Million People on lockdown. Now, thats a quarter of a countrys population video shows people rushing to catch the last train as it left northern italy seth this is what italians look like when theyre rushing [ laughter ] obviously [ cheers and applause i mean, obviously in italy, to run for a train is a fate worse than death [ laughter ] im shocked they didnt have cigarettes in one hand and aperol spritzes in the other i mean, if youve ever been to italy, you know that
Email, paper release in terms of the overnight numbers and any other news we have to report, because of the white house vtc on monday we will do a press conference at 2 00 instead of the usual 1 00 timeframe here. So, i am honored to be joined today, as i am every day, by the woman to my right who needs no introduction. The commissioner of the department of health. Her right another name well known to most, the state epidemiologist. To my far left, the state police superintendent. And to my immediate left represent the department of workforce development, the commissioner. I mentioned as yesterday that i asked rob to give us an update on the department of labor efforts to ensure every new jerseyan in need of on and limit insurance relief can file a claim and receive benefits. Folks are dealing with an unprecedented crush of people trying to reach them. We understand it can get frustrating. When the website gets bogged down, or youre stuck on hold on the telephone. But also know that th
Thank you everyone for coming. Mayor breed about afternoon. Thank you for joining us. I am San Francisco mayor london breed to provide an update with what is happens in San Francisco as it relates to the covid19 pandemic that we have been faced with here in our city and throughout the world. I am joined by our department of Public Health director grant colfax as well as the police chief bill scott, department of Human Resources director trent rohr. Currenttor odirector of emergeny management. We will help guide you through this unique challenge. I want to thank the workers who are in the hospitals working with people every day, healthcare workers, nurses, doctors, support staff showing up every day. I have seen a outpouring of love and support from san franciscans who are social distancing outside and giving hand claps and love to our healthcare workers. We appreciate what you are doing every day to keep people safe. We also want to say thank you to First Responders, police and firefig
Tumlin, police chief, bill scott, and we have a special guest today from the Interface Council who will be speaking directly after my comments. As of today, we have confirmed 676 cases of the coronavirus, sadly, 10 people have passed away as a result of this disease. This is clearly a challenging time for San Francisco. What we have done time and time again, especially during this press conference is to reiterate is importance of staying at home. We know that a couple weekends ago we had real challenges with that. Over the past two weekends people complied and have been wonderful. We also think that weather might have played a role in that because it was rain, it wasnt as nice as it will be this weekend. I want be to remind people. It is important to really maintain our physical distance when we are out in public. We may need to run errands and take walks and we are hearing about a lot of data that indicates the early signs that San Francisco is in a decent place. The fact is, we need
Walnut creek. The bakers started at 2 00 this morning and the cooks came in at 3 00 to start preparing breakfast burritos and sandwiches and pastries. The owner started a go fund me fund last tuesday to help pay for the meals. They started making deliveries on thursday. So far they have made 500 meals for those who are responding during this pandemic. Because we have to push through. I know a lot of other restaurants have hit tough times like we have, but weve been feeding this community for 40 years. My mother and father started it in 1981 and we continue it today and now in the face of this adversity, we have to find out how to be useful to our community. Today they will be donating 150 meals to ambulance drivers. They have also fed hospital workers and wednesday theyre going to feed the Walnut Creek Police department. They do need help paying for all this. They have a go fund me account. They are hoping to raise 100,000. So far they brought in 25,000. We have a link to that go fund