To perspire on even as pressure grows. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. And a coronavirus patient shares the story of her long road to recovery. Welcome to aljazeera a lockdown of indias major cities has begun in one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital mom by and chennai and calcutta among some of the curfews are also placed nationwide and International Flights have also been banned for a week. Grounding their fleet says the crisis hits International Travel Singapore Airlines for example is the latest to cut back on operations taking 96 percent of its fleet out of commission now that follows decisions by emirates and Turkish Airlines to halt the early all of their passenger flights. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo has conceded that the Tokyo Olympic games may need to be perspired and thats after weeks of insisting that the major sporting event would go ahead in july as planned and dozens of cuban
A deal with the taliban. And the tokyo lympics heading for a postponement to canada and now says it will not to send athletes to this team is games. Now a lockdown of indias major cities has begun and one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital known by chennai and kolkata are among them companies that also in place nationwide and International Flights have now been banned for a week japans Prime Minister shinzo abbay now says the Tokyo Olympic games may also need to be postponed thats after weeks of insisting the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in july and dozens of cuban doctors have arrived initially to help the Taliban Health workers it is one of the countries thats been hardest hit more than 5000 p. Have died there well shortly well get the latest from london with nadine bob and Lawrence Leigh who are also update us on whats happening in europe but fast lets go to Elizabeth Piron and in
And the u. S. Secretary of state makes a surprise visit to afghanistan to salvage a deal with the taliban. But convulsions there are a lot down of indias major cities has begun in one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital by and cities such as chennai and calcutta monks them curfews are also in place nationwide and International Flights have been banned for a week japans Prime Minister shinzo now says the Tokyo Olympic games may need to be perspire and thats after weeks of insisting the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in july the dozens also of cuban doctors have arrived in italy to help Italian Health workers italy is one of the countries thats been hardest hit more than 5000 people have died. Lets join elizabeth purana mark ora spondon in new delhi youve been following events obviously been whats been going on obviously in india of the past 24 hours indians woke up to a new reality on mon
We have with this, the who director and also doctor mike ryan executive director and doctor maria. The doctor will begin with an update and then when finished, i will open the meeting to questions. If you can please ask your questions. If you can find a phone, please. I will apologize for now to all of those who missed out. We have more than 260 people in the line already. They are connecting and asking questions. So we have to restrict this briefing to an hour. So are speakers, who are all running responses they can get to many other demands of the time. I will now in the summer to doctor printed. Thank you. Good morning. Good afternoon. And good evening where are you are. The pandemic continues to take a massive toll not just on health but on so many parts of life. For making this sacrifice to protect the health of others we look forward to next years olympics which we hope will be an even bigger and better celebration of our shared humanity. And look forward to join. We have overcom
Ioc president thomas bach says he is confident there would be a decision in four weeks. The government of the host city says there are a number of issues to tackle including the issue of the athletes village. The facilities, changed into residential units. People expect to start living in them 2023. Translator there are many stake holders invololved in the tokyo 2016 games. So i think it would take four weeks toeaear from each o of th. I think the metropolitan government is the most important stake holder and we will express our opinions in the negotiations. Meanwhile, the head of the Tokyo Olympic organizing Committee Also spoke after the ioc announcement saying he agrees the new coronavirus could force the games to be postponed. T translatotor the situatio with the virusus is growing mor severe a as itt spreads to new regions particularly in the u. S. And europe. And we are fully aware off the circumstances. Were considering a n number of opinions from different places and were not f