Reporter first question is from jamie harp, associated press. To date, how many people experiencing homelessness have tested positive for covid19 . Thank you for that question. Im only aware of individuals who have tested positive at sites in the homelessness response system. Its a large system of care where people experiencing homelessness touch many different aspects. In the homeless responses to date, there are only three who have tested positive for covid. Those are the individuals that i discussed earlier. Reporter a followup to that where are they now . Those three individuals are in Good Condition and are either receiving medical care or at an isolation quarantine site operated by Human Services agency and staffed by the department of Public Health. Reporter thank you. Question from john king of the San Francisco chronicle. What is the status of the Vehicle Triage Center on geneva . Right. For those who are unfamiliar, we have a Pilot Project that allows people who live in their
District attorney about the Public Health orders and i will say that he has been extremely supportive. Weve talked specifically about the need to if the need arises, he is supportive. I dont have those cases in terms of the details to discuss the merits of either of those cases. So, i dont think thats appropriate for me to go into detail that i dont have. But i will say they were both of the Public Health order violation nature. And those eventually will make its way to the proper authorities and the prosecutor and well see what happens. Reporter thank you. The next questions are for dr. Grant colfax. Thank you. Reporter dr. Colfax, the first question is from kate wolfe. Is the San Francisco medical Examiners Office testing for covid19 in people who have died . So, the medical examiner is following c. D. C. Guidelines with regards to testing for covid19 in people who have died. That would include people who die suddenly who have a known contact with somebody whos covidpositive. Reporte
And i say that to the mta as somebody who absolutely believes that the agency was chronically underfunded for many years when it was treated solely as a general fund department. Transportation, both on the operating and capital side, was in the puc days when muni was a puc property, always fell to the bottom of the list. And there have been a number of things that have happened, prop e in 1999, the Charter Amendment that i did in 2007 that brought a significant amounts of fee and fine revenue that used to go into the general fund was diverted to the mta and most recently what the entire board of supervisors put on the ballot and passed proposition d, the tnc tax that is a new source of revenue. And i look at those things, and i realize that fair box recovery is important. And i agree that people who are more affluent should pay for it, and we all know that, and just your slide 7 showed that in almost all of those categories, people of color and lowincome individuals were very large pro
Of war and conflict. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the British Public will hold a minutes silence today to pay tribute to frontline workers who have died after Contracting Co that 19 the government has announced it will make 860000 pound compensation payment thats almost 70000 euros to families of Health Workers and social care staff who die fighting the outbreak after years of underfunding and now a severe lack of personal protective equipment the pandemic has laid bare the crisis within the u. K. s National Health system. And nor has he found that protects him from coronavirus dr assays munaf almost feels guilty every time a long. Hes an emergency doctor so he does have access to past not protective equipment or people. But supplies across the u. K. Are very limited than simply arent enough gowns for every doctor i want to go to get treated to. A conscious of what you said to you because of what box of supplies getting less and less of that so thats every time bec
To return to their homes it says extreme weather events in a Natural Disasters are compounding the attacks of war and conflict. And how to take the distance out of social distancing visitors at one nursing home in belgium are getting a crane lift to bring them face to face again with their loved ones. Im sure me so much going to thank you for joining us britain as held a minutes silence to pay tribute to frontline workers who have died after contracting kovac 19 of these were the seeds earlier this morning. That the u. K. Government has announced it will make a 60000. 00 pounds compensation payment to families of Health Workers and social care staff who die. Fighting the outbreak thats almost 70000. 00 euros critics of the governments response to the pandemic say its highlighted the crisis within the u. K. s National Health system. Our correspondent back at mass is with us from london hi barbara tell us more about this event of paying tribute to frontline workers across britain. Well t