Confirmed friday. Osaka has signaled its entering a local state of emergency due to the strain on the medical system. Authorities there are calling on people to avoid all nonessential outings until december 15th. Translator the number of people in serious condition will not decrease unless the number of infections falls. We need to practice selfrestraint in the shortterm to save lives. The governor of neighboring kyoto prefecture is urging people to refrain from traveling to osaka as much as possible. The death toll continues to rise in japan. Over the past three days, more than 30 people a day have died. In the week up to thursday, a total of 196 people died. Translator basically, the difference between the virus that spread in july and the virus that is spreading now is not large. I think december and january are really crucial times. Japan recorded over 1,800 infections on friday, bringing the overall tally to more than 158,500. Over 2,300 people have died. Prime minister suga i sho
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
Its spinning off one of the most highly sought after assets. A possible move that could help the Company Steer clear of investor scrutiny and astrazenecas trial is back on track. Youre watching Worldwide Exchange right here on cnbc. Good monday morning. Heres how stock futures are looking on this monday morning you can see a solid amount of green on the screen. The s p higher by 32 and the nasdaq by 127. The key index to be watching over the last several months now this after the s p posted its worst week since late june and coming off the first two week losing streak since may but the focus remains on technology. Closing down more than 4 since the worst performance since the weekending march 20th and the first two week losing streak since july the nasdaq is now down more than 10 from the most recent 52 week high it was also a record by the way. A number of key events in the week ahead for the markets and your money they include a very big day tomorrow and a few fomc a new fomc meeting
S p 1. 5 and the best quarter since 1998 and nasdaq gained 1. 87 and looked fast tas tic fc my own point of view were the stocks with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of great luck. Many were stocks that bounced back from the march meltdown thanks to the 2. 2 millitrillion stimulus package these compapanies got lucky. The government intervened and worth a lot more money but it didnt take any ingenuity for carnival to rebound from the lows they were saved by the fed no, i want to talk about companies that have shown they can survive and thrive during this pandemic so no signs of abating in the u. S if anything, its getting worse. The pandemic is gets work because millions of people refuse to take the virus seriously. They wouldnt wear the mask. They even subjected to some of the guys on capitol hill today they wouldnted a ve ed ed edal distancing guidelines so there are breakouts in the south and west first, sometimes you got to go with the obvious zoom video there were many other outfits t
Actually absolutely destroy the outgoing un special rapporteur of course Operations Leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the continued persecution of Rohingya Muslims im joining the with sporting doubts around the take here lympics is japans Prime Minister says it will be impossible to host the games next year unless the current virus pandemic is contained. Its still early days in the pandemic triggered world wide recession but we now have a better sense of how hard key sectors of the economy are being impacted the Worlds Largest economy the United States has wiped out a decade of growth shrinking by 4. 8 percent in the 1st quarter according to figures released a short time ago one of its largest manufacturers boeing as reported losses of at least 600000000. 00 while european rival says that it lost more than half a 1000000000. 00 in the 1st quarter to europes largest economy will have the worst year since the end of the 2nd world war germany contracted by to. Percent in the 1st quarter but it