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
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The choice he had to make. Plus, the chaotic scene after a passenger jet hits a bear on the runway. The problem overnight just after this historic spacex launch to the space station. What engineers had to do. From the new beer made by waffle house to a pigeon worth nearly 2 million to the ultimate hail mary pass, all the trending stories to start your week. Good monday morning, everyone. We begin with the new restrictions on schools and businesses as the coronavirus emergency takes a dangerous new turn. More than 1 million new cases have been reported in just the last week and across the country during that time the number of people in the hospital with covid has increased by 24 . We are expecting some good news about a second possible vaccine. Moderna is expected to report early results just one week after pfizer reported its vaccine is more than 90 effective against the virus. But in the meantime, some doctors are sounding the alarm about the delayed transition of power in washington
Plus, the chaotic scene after a passenger jet hits a bear on the runway. The problem overnight just after this historic spacex launch to the space station. What engineers had to do. From the new beer made by waffle house to a pigeon worth nearly 2 million to the ultimate hail mary pass, all the trending stories to start your week. Good monday morning, everyone. We begin with the new restrictions on schools and businesses as the coronavirus emergency takes a dangerous new turn. More than 1 million new cases have been reported in just the last week and across the country during that time the number of people in the hospital with covid has increased by 24 . We are expecting some good news about a second possible vaccine. Moderna is expected to report early results just one week after pfizer reported its vaccine is more than 90 effective against the virus. But in the meantime, some doctors are sounding the alarm about the delayed transition of power in washington, which is preventing presi
Cnbcs karen cho is here to report on the largest trade deal for china and excludes the United States. The meeting happening now could reveal whether the Tokyo Olympic games could take place or be postponed again. Im frances rivera. Im valerie castro. A team of four astronauts safely lifted off and are on their way to the International Space station as we speak. This mission marks the new era where spacex will happen nasa. Tom costello joins us from the kennedy spa Kennedy Space center tom, good morning. Reporter good morning. A phenomenal experience yet again as we watch the Spacex Falcon 9 rocket topped with the space ship that the crew has dubbed resilience. Lifting off the pad at 7 27 eastern time a perfect, perfect evening launch here into the night sky coming up the entire east coast of the United States accelerating before finally dropping off its various stages well on its way now to intersecting with the International Space station hoping to meet up with the space station about