State emergency that we are all experiencing. I am join today second nate smith as normal. Am also joined by stacy hurst, who will talk shortly about our parks, state park and outside recreational activities. I was previously joined by director a. J. Gary, who had to leave because he has a few other things going, including responding to the tornado in jonesboro. So he has got two crisis on his hands, and i appreciate his work as well. Yesterday as we reported, we had 426 covid19 cases in arkansas. Today we have 473 cases, which is an addition of 47. We have 62 who are hospitalized, and we have one new county, which is arkansas county. We have an additional death to the total. We now have seven deaths as a result of covid19. And again, dr. Smith will provide more details. I am going to turn it over to him for his comments, and then secretary hurst, and i will follow that with two announcements today. Thank you, governor. I want to give a little bit more detail on our numbers. As the gov
Transport Committee Meeting for today, monday, march 30, 2020. And it is a special meeting. I am the chair of the committee, supervisor aaron peskin. Joined by vice chair supervisor safai and supervisor dean preston. And the clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, do you have announcements . Clerk yes, please due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members and the City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. And precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stay at home order and all preceding and proceeding local, state and federal orders, declarations and orders. Members will be by teleconference or telephone if the video fails and participate in the meetings to the extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item of this agenda. Channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number at the top of the screen. Ea
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 to be mindful that this virus is out there. We cannot ge
Secretary stacy hurst who will talk shortly about our parks our state parks and our outside recreation activities and i was previously joined pie director a. J. Gary who had to leave because well see got a few other things going, including responding to the tornado in jonesboro. So hes got two crises on his hands and i appreciate his work as well. Yesterday as we reported, we had 426 covid19 cases in arkansas. Today, we have 473 cases which is an addition of 47. We have 62 who are hospitalize asked one new county which is arkansas county. In addition, we have an additional death thats added to the total so we have now seven deaths, as a result of covid19. And again, dr. Smith will provide more details. Im going to turn it over to him for his comments and then secretary hurst and i will follow that with two announcements today. Thank you governor. I want to give a little bit more detail on our numbers. We did have a jump up of 47 to a total of 473. The breakdown between male and female
We have had two officers test positive. We have had 53 quarantined. Some of those are back at work. We have been very fortunate working with the department of Public Health and the mayor and others who provided leadership early on. We hope we can continue to see this good fortune. We have not been severely impacted at this point. At this point only two. Follow up from sf gate. Do you have plans in plate for the a significant number of First Responders become ill. We do. We have seen other places around the country with this. We started with modifying our protocols, administrative units and officers that work those units were rotating in patrol to supplement. We modified the patrol schedule and have several models in the event we have significant short sage ages of personal. We have several models to go to. Depending on the shortages there are different models. We have modified deployment greatly included limited activity in terms of in Service Training is canceled. We shifted investiga