Weekdays. Though we understand that may not be possible depending on your line of work. We want people to refrain from going out at night. We also want residents to refrain from going out this weekend unless it is urgent. Koike said tokyo is now facing the risk of an explosive spread of infections. She called o on people coming bk from abroad to abide by the 14day selfquarantine rule. E. Five of the newly confirmed cases were people who recently returned from overseas. 11 others have been tied to a hospital where a nurse and a patient were confirmed infected on tuesday. Tokyo reportedd a Record Number of infections for three Straight Days through wednesday. 16 were confirmed on monday and 17 on tuesday. The increase prompted an expert on Infectious Diseases to call for more drastic measures to fight the virus. Translator over the past few days, people who returned from abroad to tokyo and other parts of japan have tested positive for the virus. If there is an explosive increase in the
Translator tokyo is on the brink of an explosisive increas of infections. We are trying to prevent a situation like that andnd t try to prevent further spread of virus levels. This is needed now. There are more than 2,100 confirmed cases across japan. Not including 712 cases from the diamond princess cruise ship. A total of 70 people have died including 11 from the cruise ship. Meanwhile, japan is set to further restrict entry into the country. Nhk has learned that the new measures will apply to the 49 countries and territories. The u. S. , canada, china and south korea as well as most of europe and some parts of Southeast Asia will be affected. Once the measures are in place, foreign nationals from a total of 73 countries and regions will be banned from entering japan. The restrictions also apply to people who have visited the designated countries within the past two weeks. Translator we have decided to raise the warning level for Infectious Diseases in response to the rapid spread of
Tunnel. Thomas bach says when deciding on the delay, the ioc considered not only conditions in japan but the reality of the situation of athletes abroad. He agreed that postponing the games was the best move. Translator we are committed to holding the games in a complete form when we can prove that human beings have overcome illness caused by the new coronavirus. Its the first time in olympic history that a Public Health crisis has caused the games to be put off. Athletes applauded the move while wondering about their future. Hannah mills was set to compete this summer. She told nhk kdelaying the game was the right decision but she was stillll emotional. The olympic gameses is everytything for us and what wee dedicated our lives to. The q question of another year asked, will my body be okay . Have i got that drive and motitivation . Of coursrse i willl find it, 10 purse. But it just takes a lot of absorbing. The effects of the postpoponement are already rippling through the sports worl
The peninsula starting to drop a lot of mid 40s. A northerly breeze up to about 25 or 30 Miles Per Hour in some of the higher elevations. Look for a drive pattern to take us into this week, although it will be blessed the blustery. Early in january looks dry. 50s on most of the temps here. Do this morning, chp investigating after a person was hit and killed by a car on highway 101. That collision happened on the northbound side of the freeway south of brokaw a road around 11 30 last night. The freeway was closed for more than two hours overnight for that investigation. So far chp is not identifying the victim or the driver. No one else was hurt. This is the first time a pedestrian has been killed in san jose this year. A group of homeless mothers who moved into a vacant house in west oakland are due back in court this morning. We are live in hayward where a judge focused on the mothers and their children being allowed to stay. Reporter thats right. Court begins at 9 00 a. M. The mother
Chinas secret brainwashing camps. Bbc panorama goes inside the network of high Security Prisons where inmates are indoctrinated and punished. And at 11 30pm, we will be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, ros altmann and mihir bose. Stay with us for that. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament as soon as possible after the election if he wins. In a speech in telford, in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england, there was a new pledge to add 50,000 more nurses to the workforce, partly by stemming the flow of people leaving, and also by recruiting from overseas. There was also a promise to restore nursing grants and train more staff. He said there would be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for five years. An earlier plan from mrjohnson to raise the income Tax Threshold for higher earners is scrapped, but t