Europe appear to be stable or declining but he expressed concern that africa and central and south america are seeing upward trends though the numbers are low at this stage. The executive director of the w. H. O. Heaealth Emergencies Program michael ryan highlighted the potential for catastrophe if the virus spreads in countries with weakk medical systems. He said the w. H. O. Has seen an increase of 250 to 300 in just one week, alone, in some african nations. He said we are at the beginning in africa. Data compiled by u. S. Universities show the number of confirmed Coronavirus Infections has topped 2. 6 million worldwide. Johns Hopkins University says the death toll has now exceeded 182,000. The United States has the most fatalities at over 45,000. The governor of new york state has announced plans to launch a largescale program aiming to trace the contacts of people infected with the coronavirus. Once you trace and find more positives, then you isolate the positives. Theyre under qua
President yee good afternoon and welcome to the april 28th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. President yee thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer, fewer, present. Supervisor haney. Supervisor haney . Okay. All right. Supervisor mandelman. Present. Clerk mandelman. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor peskin, peskin present. And supervisor preston. Preston, present. Supervisor ronen. Ronen, present. Supervisor safai. Safai present. Supervisor stefani. Stefani, present. Supervisor walton. Present. Can we confirm that it was peskin . Clerk im worried about him. Supervisor walton, walton present. Supervisor yee. Yee present. And supervisor haney, were you able to join us . Okay, haney not present. Can one of my staff check on him, please. Thank you. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. So somebody needs to cut their mike. Its sounding like theres a lot of bass clerk it sounds like supervisor pe
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