Translator we will be securing hospitals to specialize in covid19. Two hospitals will now exclusively care for coronavirus patients, each offering about 100 beds. Officials plan to secure 200 more covid19 beds spread across 14 hospitals. Ministers and experts met on friday to discuss antivirus measures. The experts proposed using a fofourstage classificatation sm to monitor the coronavirus situtuation. The approach would use six criteria, including case numbers and the percecentage of coronavirus tests which provide posititive results. S. They say many parts of the country are in stage two, seeing a gradual spread. The head of the expert panel says at stage three, officials should ask bars, which arent following virus prevention guidelines, to close. Translator when the situation is classified as stage four, logically speaking, its time to issue a state of emergency declaration. The minister in charge of the Coronavirus Response says the priority must be supporting the medical system.
Translator we may have no choice but to call on people to reframe from taking action and traveling. Translator we want to ask students and relatives to hold back from visitining home towns and also from visiting friends and acquaintances this summer. Some local leaders are concerned that People Living in cities may spread the virus when visiting smaller locales for family reunions and others say correct precautions must be followed. Translator i dont think it is a problem for people to return to home towns after properly taking measures against Infectious Diseases and communicating with their families. The chief cabinet secretary said on monday that the Central Government is not discouraging people from visiting other prefectures during the holidays. But like governments around the world, controllingng the coronavirus will gradually reopening t the economy i is prg to be a tricky balance. Officials plan to hold an Expert Panel Meeting this week to discuss what measures people should ta
Ill be back tomorrow. Mike will be here at the top of the hour. Now on bbc news. Hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The International Outcry prompted by chinas imposition of a draconian new National Security law in hong kong has been long and loud, but will it make any difference . Inside the territory itself, protests have been muted and the main pro democracy activist movement, well, its disbanded itself. My guest today was one of the founders of that movement, nathan law. He is now in exile here in london. So, is chinas hardline hong kong strategy working . Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for the invitation. Lets begin with your current situation. Why did you decide to flee hong kong . Well, as we all know, the hong kong government, well, at least accepted, or the Central Government directly enacted, the National Security law in hong kong, which. It is written in such a broad and fake term that could well possibly be used as a legal weap
Crackdown on people violating a Strict Lockdown as more than a 1000000000 people are told to stay home for 3 weeks. It is only one war that is necessary to take its war against the foreigners. And the u. S. Actually general tells our jazeera poor countries need immediate support as he launches an appeal to the 2000000000. 00. A warning from the World Health Organization that the u. S. Is poised to become the next coronavirus epicenter has its leaders including the president focusing on its biggest city there are now 30000 cases across new york states most of them are in the city where the number of people in the hospital rose to nearly 4000 on wednesday thats led to the construction of temporary hospitals and a mall a President Trump says hes working closely with leaders across the country particularly in new york state. Were also as you know building numerous hospitals and medical centers. Throughout certain areas in new york its at the Convention Center the javits Convention Center.
Appeals for 2000000000. 00. And 400 tons of freshly caught fish is said to be thrown away in sri lanka because of coronavirus the of. Us senators due to vote in the coming hours on a 2 trillion dollars package to fight coronavirus the monies for helping frontline medical workers and keeping the worlds biggest economy afloat the vote comes after republican senators flagged what they call drafting issues which had to be amended before the bill can ask macca my kind of has more from washington. So we have to go back we have to go back the stimulus bill remains stalled in the Senate President trump spent much of the daily Coronavirus Briefing extolling its many virtues its going to be in the form alone so the moneys going to come back he doubled down on his insistence that the shutdown could be ended soon in many parts of the country and angrily claimed that some of his opponents were using the crisis to harm his election chances later this year i think there are certain people that would