Issue for us. Its a key issue, as you know, across the country right now within our Public Health lab under the direction of dr. Susan philip and theyve done an amazing job of implementing testing. Our capacity is relatively small and theyre having to prioritize testing the people who are most in need of testing, requirementy symptoms in the hospital, at high risk for firstdegree exposures and then healthcare workers. So were really focusing on those flee populations 03 thre. To give you an idea of how our daytoday is going right now, were injecting a capacity of a days worth of test or at the best, a weeks worth. And so were getting tests delivered to us by the cdc in the very challenging fashion because were simply not able to be assure ed this either w assuh tests to last for months or to expand our capacity to run 24 hours a day. So thats within the dph side. Within our Public Health lab side. Were also working with private labs including Quest Diagnostics in our Health Network and
Unemployment benefits last week. That is double the previous weeks record of 3. 3 million. Ringing the total to almost 10 million. Here in california 878,000 people filed first time and implement claims last week compared to 186,000 the week before. California has twice as many claims as any other state. Relief is now available for Small Businesses in california affected by the outbreak. Governor newsom today announced a relief package that extends the sales tax deadline for Small Businesses to july 1. Businesses with less than 5 million in taxable sales will be able to defer payment of up to 30,000 for one year without a fine or penalty. In essence it is a bridge loan. The money youve already collected, you will not have to pay the state for 12 months, no penalties or interest, de facto, alone. Governor newsom also announced a new job search website called on rca. Org. It will assist people that are laid off due to the coronavirus pandemic find employment and other resources. Today th
In the past two weeks. Good evening, everyone. Im julie haner. And im frank sommerville. Tonight we have another statistic thats as staggering. 1 million cases and rising. Today the worldwide coronavirus pandemic reached and then quickly exceeded that number, along with more than 53,000 deaths. And here in the bay area theres more sad news, all nine counties have reported deaths from the coronavirus. Everyone should work a Face Covering out in public. Regional Authorities Say wearing a cloth mask or bandanna may prevent transmission of the coronavirus. This in medical grade masks should be reserved for healthcare rkers. According to the Labor Department a record 6. 6 Million People filed new claims for Unemployment Benefits last week. Here in california 870,000 people filed firsttime claims. California has twice as many unemployment claims as any other state. The flood of new requests for jobless benefits is now threatening to overwhelm the States Employment offices. Now we have advice
This process may be different than we normally do. If i may, i may move on to item 2, the approval of the march 3rd, 2020 minutes. Do we need to do a call to order and role call . Yes, thank you. So ill start with you, commissioner. role call . Well move on to item 2, the approval of the march 2 minutes. Reviewing the minutes of the previous meeting, does anybody have a motion to approve . So moved. Second. All those i in favor . Do we need to do a role call . role call . Thank you. Item 3, the directors report. The directors report is in front of you and i would ask that if you have any questions, of course, im happy to answer them, but given that the majority of our meeting with focus on covid19, i will not need whats in front of you, but im happy to answer any questions you see fit to raise at the time. Any commissioner questions . Im not receivining a Public Comment request. Commissioners, if not, we can move on to the next item. Item 4, the coronavirus update. So good afternoon, c
Mostly sunny today with a little breeze, more so towards the peninsula, sso and Half Moon Bay which is holding up temperatures a little bit. A system on the way for the weekend and there is more that with two pieces of it and heis did a little below average but still okay before the big weekend change. And on this friday Sal Castaneda is here and good morning. Good morning sir, happy friday and here we are with not a lot to say which is good, when we open up the morning if you do have to go to your job at your essential workplace it does look good, san mateo bridge traffic you do see people are out but not very many on a friday heading out to the other side. No major issues on 880 or 580 on the east bay and i will look at know if anything is happening but now bathis morning, at 5 30 the Us Labor Department will release the monthly jobs report or march and it is expected to show a fraction of the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus the employment numbers were collected in the