Harder to provide treatment to people with serious symptoms. This is the right time to issue a red alert. Its a declaration of an emergency in medical care. Our First Priority will be protecting life the governor says the occupancy of the prefectures hospital beds set aside for serious cases is expected to soon reach 70 . On top of the call for people to stay home, officials plan to extend their requests for bars and restaurants to close early until december 15th. Officials here in tokyo reported 533 new cases on thursday. To date, the number of people who have tested positive in tokyo has exceeded 42,000. 54 are currently in serious condition. Tokyos hospitals have 150 beds for serious cases. The metropolitan government is asking them to increase that to 200. Officials say they want to prevent the spike in severe covid19 cases from affecting treatment for other diseases. Theyre also asking medical institutions to allocate more beds to coronavirus cases that are not serious. Authoritie
1000 pandemic has thrown a wrench in the works. The fact that many stores will not have in person a bed due to the pandemic, as well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in the pockets. Has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season. So lets get some expert analysis from dr. Banky shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies at Mays Business School at texas a and m. And dr. Barbara stuart, the coordinator of retailing and Consumer Sciences at the university of houston. Thank you both for being here today. Dr. Stuart, i want to start with you. Were seeing a change in black friday due to the pandemic and stores want to avoid crowds. What are some new trends that were already seeing for the black friday this year . Well, here are 3 aspects that will make this a black friday, like, you know, rather firstly, Online Shopping has exploded 2nd playing well shopping. And thirdly, retail is i
Thats ali baba alone, while black friday was once the now known for outrageous door busters that caused consumers to line up in front of Big Box Stores like target, walmart and best buy 2019 was the 1st year in which more people shopped online than in store. For the most part, sales figures have continued to trend up over the last 2 decades. But the copa 19 pandemic has thrown a wrench in the works. The fact that many stores will not have in person a bed due to the pandemic, as well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in a customers pockets, has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season, so lets get some expert analysis from dr. Vankin shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies that made Business School at texas a and m. And dr. Barbara stuart, the coordinator of retailing and Consumer Sciences at the university of houston. Thank you both for being here today. Dr. Stuart, i want
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Will join us with the latest. Hello, everyone. Im monte francis. Thanks for joining us. Lawmakers have decided to rewrite a controversial bill that critics said threatened freedom of the press. The bill would have made it illegal to film Police Officers in certain situations. Over the weekend, tens of thousands of people protested against the law, the proposed law, bowing to the pressure behind article 24, and said members of parliament would take it back to the drawing board. We are going to propose a complete rewrite of article 24, which should reflect its dual purpose. This new text will be written within a collective framework involving the three majority groups in parliament. It now appears evident that the legislative and semantic choices we made have prompted concern over citizens who are worried, who are in fact convinced it would threaten the right to inform the right to access information, as well as a legitimate system of checks and balances when it comes to police behavior.