Welcome to stand together, uniting discrimination town hall by the Human Rights Commission. And im the host and i produce programs at the commonwealth click of california and kcew, San Francisco bay area. This is the first of many town hall decisions that discussions that we will do to discuss the discrimination. What we need to to do to come together as communities so well try to get to all of the major issues today but if we dont, dont worry, this is one of the many town hall discussions that well do. Before we begin our program, here are a couple of special leaders in the city who have remarkeds. And id like to introduce you to the executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Director davis . Thank you so much, michelle, and i look forward to the conversation with our panelists. We are very grateful for this opportunity to have a conversation together. We will continue to have discussions. We are saddened by the increase in case incidents of hate crimes, but we a
With me on the Video Conference is Catherine Stefani and rules Committee Member supervisor gordon mar. Our id like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 health emergencier and to protect Board Members, City Employees and the public, the board of the supervisor legislative chamber are closed. Members will participate in the meeting remotely. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda on both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org. Theyre streaming the number across the screen. Comments are opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling 415 6550001. Again thats 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 344 9722. Press pound and up and down again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions and in listening mode only. Best practices are to call prosecute a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly. And turn down your television or radio. Il you may send comments at victor. Young sfjgov.
Quarantine. Its not clear when those measures will be lifted. The number of newly confirmed cases dropped to 19 on monday. The total is now around 81,000 and the death toll stands at about 3100. At the same time, other nations are ramping up efforts to stop the viruss worldwide spread. Italy is now entirely locked down. Prime minister giusepp conte says the unprecedented measures will last until april 3rd. He asked residents to stay at home and for bayed them from gathering in public. Individuals should only go out for work and healthrelated needs and emergencies. 463 people in italy have died from the virus and nearly 9200 have been infected. Both numbers are the second highest after china. On sunday and monday inmates in the countrys prisons rioted after the virus. The Justice Ministry said seven inmates died. Elsewhere in europe france, germany and spain have now each confirmed more than 1,000 cases. Outside Mainland China and japan over 30,000 infections have been confirmed and mor
[ drums . drums drums drums drums . drums . [cheers and applause] drums . [cheers and applause] whatowhat do you think . Wow, right . Lets give another round of applause to lion dance we lets thank norman chow and sammy yung. Thank you very much [cheers and applause] my name is carmen chu and as your emcee the first to say to you and your loved ones a happy Lunar New Year. speaking chinese . [cheers and applause] i am so very honoured to welcome you today to San Francisco city hall. Holding this event here in the grand rotunda is not only beautiful, but it is also appropriate and it is symbolic. It is symbolic if that in the very seat of local government decisionmaking, we have a very public welcoming and a very public recognition of the diversity and cultural celebrations of our great city. Lunar new year, as you know, is one of the most celebrated and important holidays, celebrated within the Asian Pacific community and it is a time we start a new with fresh hopes and wishes for the
Hi, neil, we had the staggering figure of 15,000 new cases in 24hour period, what we saw china do today come out and hold the press conference and they said this is not spreading like wild fire, 99 to have cases are still in china, as you pointed out another big figure today, 5,000 more in last 14 hours, 121 new deaths also in that period. Now china having to implement these wartime control measures in some of the cities, earlier today also finally we have heard from the World Health Organization who said a team would be going to china. Im glad to say that who led joined nation with china is moving forward, we expect the full team to touchdown over the weekend, the mission consists of 12 international and who experts and similar number of National Expert from china. Its expected that there will be some experts also from the u. S. In that team, but still theres criticism of chinas response, one chinese doctor writing a very rare critical letter of the government saying they had failed t