Good afternoon and thank you for your patience. Im mayor london breed and im joined by the department of human sources, trent roher and department of housing, the police chief, bill scott and youll be hearing from some of them in just a moment. As of today, we have 1,490 cased of those reported in San Francisco with chinatow covid1d sadly, we have lost 23 residents in our city. You can find out more information at datasf. Org covid19. Our tracker with a number of details around neighborhoods, of around race and ethnicity and other information on this tracker that we will continue to update. In addition, there is information on this tracker, as well, regarding our hotel rooms and the number of hotels rooms that are available and also occupied by Homeless Individuals, our Public Health and our Public Safety workers and so lots of great information on the tracker. Today, as im sure you know, that the Area County Health officers announced Additional Details regarding the stayathome order w
Consulted with the centers for disease. Individuals are at least six feet apart. Theres no room for public to attend in person. Representatives of the press are working as a pool to relay their observations to colleague. The hearing may be watched online. An unedited recording will be available on the website. Witnesses are participating by Video Conference in a onetime exception. Some senators, including the chairman, are participating by Video Conference. Senators, we have been advised may remove masks, talk into the microphone when in the hearing room as they are six feet apart. Im grateful to the roall for t hard work to keep us safe. In our hearing last thursday, i said that all roads back to work and back to school run through testing. What our country has done so far on testing is impressive. Not nearly enough. Over the weekend, senator schumer, the democratic leader, was nice enough to put out a tweet quoting half of what i said. He left out the other half, the impressive part.
Mr. President , all members of president. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one makes under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfg tv. The special order is the appearance with the honnable mayor, london breed. There being no questions submitted from supervisors one through four, the mayor may address the board up to five minutes. Ok. First of all, i want to welcome madam mayor breed and there were no topics submitted by supervisors today, but before you get started, i want to take the time to address the public on what we are preparing to announce next week. I want to acknowledge how we are collectively are reevaluating the structures we have in place with the Emergency Response. Communications between the board and Emergency
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Or on the line every day. Last week, we talked about how important testing is to our desire to reopen the economy while taking every appropriate measure to protect the lives and health of customers, staff, business owners, visitors and residents in every corner of our state. Today, we are very pleased to announce a partnership with idx it employs 3000 people in our state, and worldwide leader in the production of diagnostics is partnering with us to provide covid19 test material sufficient to more than triple our current Testing Capacity. While this a deal was and that works, we boarded for the fda and washington to give final emergency use approval to idexx new approval. That approval arrived this morning. This changes everything. For weeks, my administration has been in discussions with idexx to make sure people of wade would be the beneficiary of their new test kits should fda approve them. And now we have that approval. As a result of this partnership, the state of maine will have