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 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 San Francisco is in a decent place. The fact is, we need
The u. S. President says he wont be that advice. But the i. M. F. Raising concerns of the developing countries medical needs help workers in pakistan and desperate for more protective gear. And in sport further talks are taking place to discuss English Premier League footballers taking a cut the deal is being negotiated that will see players salaries produced by 30 percent. And new numbers have just been released from spain more than 800 people have died there in the past 24 hours from corona virus but that is about 120 few if they tell us hes compared to the day before more than 11700 people have now died in spain since the outbreak began the number of new infections in spain contin. Used to rise with nearly 125000 confirmed cases meanwhile the us cent is for Disease Control is urging people to wear face masks to reduce the chance of infection a reversal of previous official advice the u. S. Government is also promising to pay for tests and treatment for tens of millions of americans
Good afternoon and welcome to the meeting of the land use and transport Committee Meeting for today, monday, march 30, 2020. And it is a special meeting. I am the chair of the committee, supervisor aaron peskin. Joined by vice chair supervisor safai and supervisor dean preston. And the clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, do you have announcements . Clerk yes, please due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members and the City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. And precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stay at home order and all preceding and proceeding local, state and federal orders, declarations and orders. Members will be by teleconference or telephone if the video fails and participate in the meetings to the extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item of this agenda. Channel 26 and sfgo
Considers easing summer struction says its leaders weigh up the health risks with the risks to the economy the 2 week quarantine for prisoners across the us is federal jails try to limit the spread of the coronavirus a minute makes. Another 708 people have died from covert 19 in the United Kingdom that is a 20 percent increase from the day before and the 3 week lockdown to slow the infections which are now above 42000 but warmer weather this weekend could tempt people to go outside officials were urging people not to do that to stay inside talk about spain one of the worst affected European Countries has had another 809 deaths the governments pushing to extend its tough containment measures until at least the end of the month iran meanwhile is considering restarting some into. Production even though there are predictions of another wave of infections there so go to mary joins us live now from london via skype so marian we had it update within the last hour from the government there pre
Im chair of the committee and to my right and supervisor stephani and supervisor walton and were joined by supervisor hainey and i want to thank corwin coolee for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Please make your you have silenced your stones and cell p. Items acted upon will appear on the march 10, 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, are clerk. Please all our first item. An ordinance to require the medical examiner to report information to the mayor, the board of supervisors and the director of health each month regarding deaths from Drug Overdoses. Thank you, supervisor hainey, this item is yours. Yes, thank you, chair. Im here, again, with you, committee to again discuss what we can t do to take action on te most deadly epidemic facing our city which is the Drug Overdose epidemic. Drug use and drug overuse deaths in San Francisco and across california, as we all know have been increasing at a terrifying rate and today, people in our cities are dying