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Mayor breed good morning, e. Thank you all so much for being here. I am San Francisco mayor london breed. I am joined today by the director of the department of Public Health, doctor grant colfax, department of department of Emergency Management. Mary ellen carol, director of department of Human Services, trent rhorer, Abigail Stewart conas well as director of the department of m. T. A. , jeff tumlin, police chief, bill scott, and we have a special 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 ....
71 the week before and 58 this week. Property crimes we saw alarminger decrease. 146 fewer property crimes and that number went from 569 to 455. Our part one overall crimes we are down 165 over the prior week. We are seeing decreases, but we want to emphasize our officers are out in force. They are out patrolling the streets, and we would like to see that trend continue. Particularly we are focused on the businesses boarded up and closed. We know those businesses feel vulnerable and the owners feel the businesses are vulnerable. We pay extra attention to that. We have had burglaries and vandalisms of businesses. We have made arrests and we will control those areas to give a sense of comfort to those who closed businesses. We encourage all people to report crime when and if they see it, and there are some crimes as i mentioned that you can report online or call our call center. If it is a crime of violence or crime in progress, serious crime, please call 911. Continue to do that. We wil ....
Doing to keep all of our meetings running smoothly, which i know that is challenging in these times. And mr. Clerk do you have announcemented . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect City Employees, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and the Committee Room are closed. The members are participating in the meeting remotely, the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda, both cable channel 26 and sfggovtv. Org are streaming. And the ability to speak during the Comment Period are available by calling 8882045984. And you can utilize an access code. The code is, 3501008. Ill repeat those numbers, the calling number is 8882045984. And the access code is, 3501008. And once callers are ....
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 ....