Positive, including more than 700 cases from the cruise ship. One Infectious Disease expert is calling on people to become vigilant saying the number of seriously ill patients have been increasing. He says local medical services need to swiftly improve their capacity in case of a further spike in cases and deaths. Health officials in japan are ramping up pretesting as cases grow. Tokyo is now regularly seeing daily case numbers five times higher than those seen when internal travel restrictions were eased. There were 168 new cases in the capital on monday. Slightly fewer than the 200 plus cases it saw for many days over the past two weeks. The latest figures bring the total number of confirmed cases in the capital to over 9500. Moving forward, people who live or work in neighborhoods considered high risk will be able to get tested free of cost. Previously publicly funded tests were only available to those who had close contact with infected people. Among the latest cases are many young
The british medical journal the lancet on monday. The university is working on the vaccine with pharmacaceutical company astrazeneca. Researchers say antibody levels in 127 participants peaked after four weeks and rememained elevad afteter eight weeks. They also confirmed neutralizing antibodies in more than 90 of 35 participapants after one dos. But around 70 of the participants reported headaches and fatigue. Researchers suggest the vaccine has no serious negative effects and are planning further clinical trials. The World Health Organization says it is encouraged by the progress. We do welcome the study and congratulate our colleagues at the Oxford Universitys institute and the oxford vaccine group. Ryan added there are significant production challenges to ensure people around the world have access to the possible vaccine. Meanwhile, japans Health Ministry has set up a new team to coordinate talks with groups developing coronavirus vaccines. The Health Minister revealed on monday th
Familiar with the alliance, we are a Nonpartisan Organization that is dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policy community through a balanced exchange of evidence. We are so thankful to bill pierce for supporting the alliance and putting on this series and with that support we have had the privilege of hosting many esteemed guests and Panel Discussions over the past couple of years including Joseph Grogan who im honored to welcome back today. I believe you have the distinction of being our first repeat guest. He joined us about a year ago when he was an associate director at omb and so we look forward to hearing about your new role and Health Care Priorities as the director of the Domestic Policy Council. Thank you for being here again, mr. Grogan. Thank you to all of you for being here and with that i will turn it over to bill to get us started. Thank you, kathryn. Welcome everybody, welcome on behalf of apco where with along with the alliance we think these are important
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Programs i have the pleasure to welcome you all to her breakfast. For reporters if youre not familiar with the alliance a Nonpartisan Organization dedicated to convening and educating the Health Policies and we are so thankful to support the alliance with the series with that support to see guest and Panel Discussions over the last couple of years including joseph rogan i believe you have the distinction to have our first repeat guest he joined us a year ago as an associate director we look forward to hearing about your new role and healthcare priorities for the Domestic Policy Council thank you for being here and we will get it started. On behalf of the alliance these are important alliances we believe strongly that wellinformed press is important to the washington dc world and the dialogue is important we really appreciate you joe willing to come and subject yourself to the questioning of this group. Senior director here. Joe and i have known each other for quite some time working in