Today . I think we need to reconsider our behavior. We need to hold off on going out like this. Translator i i think the hi is because of more testing. But im a bit scared. Our business will be hit again, if the restrictions return. Tokyos governor is calling for a higher alert level for people in the capital. Transnslator our current e is cautionon r required against spreading infectition. Wewe n need yourr cooperation ir everyday activities to help contain the virus. Koike attributess the rise t people who either work at or visit nighttime entntertainment spot, such as host or hostess bars. She says many are in their 20s and 30s. And the top spokesperson for the Central Government says its, also, looking into o the situan closely. Translator we dont think the currerent situation immediately y requires a state emergency. We will deal with the matter, in Close Association with the metropolitan government. Across the nation, more than 170 new cases were confirmed on thursday. Again, the
To and from five specific prefectures including tokyo where the number of infections remained relatively high. The government is also releasing an app designed to notify user who is come into close contact with someone confirmed infected with the virus. The app is called covid19 contact confirming. It will record encrypted data of users when they come within a certain distance of each other. If a user tests positive for the virus, they register their information. People with the app who spend at least 15 minutes within about one meter of them will be identified. The app deletes contact data after 14 days. It also does not collect phone numbers, location data, or other information that could identify its users. The government says it can better protect user privacy than Similar Software introduced abroad. Translator this will be an important tool to protect lives. I hope many people will install it. The app was developed under the supervision of the Health Ministry with the goal of prev
The japanese archipelago a cluster of uninhabited islands now on the frontline of what may be a new flashpoint they lie close to Significant Oil and gas deposits strategic shipping routes and lucrative fishing grounds to japan they are the cuckoo islands china calls them the dar use but for 50 years theyve been administered and controlled by tokyo taiwan also claims ownership chinas government had warned japan against changing the status of the islands and is now reportedly deployed coast guard vessels to the area as it has done many times before. Its a serious purgation against chinas territorial so empty that a japanese site possibility in the name its illegal and invalid it cannot change the fact that though you island blogged china we formally aborts that 11 more made with japanese side china as a large number of. Their diplomatic status and a 3rd of the right to for their react. The rising tensions in the East China Sea come as chinas military continues to assert its Maritime Clai
Is slightly better than economists were expecting an better than the previous month. Leasing Property Investment looking better. Fixed assets investments, also a drop of 6. 3 . Aonomists were looking at drop of 6 , but the trend seems to be better than the previous month. I guess it continues to show that this could still be an uneven recovery we are seeing in china. Uneven recovery but a broadening of chinas recovery, as well. We heard new home prices, the most in six months. That is a good sign as the economy reopens. We are seeing how home prices in terms of growth has accelerated. Easing on credit, helping a lot. Just to recap, retail sales, 2. 8 . Retail sales, still contracting, retail sales have collapsed. Consumers are pretty cautious when it comes to coming back to spending. Beijing and other chinese cities are giving up consumption vouchers to its people. They encourage them to spend in the fiscal month of the year. Retail sales slumped 16 nationwide so as long as retail back
A 2nd day of protest in minneapolis after the death of an unarmed black man at the hands of police. And in sport all the large sigma sound so much chance to go 2nd in the german bund is legal. And now knowing points adrift of leaders are finding. More Chinas Parliament has given the go ahead for a new security laws in hong kong despite protests and International Warnings a wide ranging legislation includes a ban on treason secession sedition and subversion and it could now be in effect within weeks adrian brown has more. Hong kongs people had no say in the decision to impose a new security law on this city that was not a concern among people we spoke to in the north point district where many mainland immigrants live. Of course we will have peace now hong kong has been so chaotic the protesters even went to the United States to ask them to put sanctions on hong kong what a mess they have made. The young may have different thoughts before as the elderly there are we make our country pros