Across the country, eight prefectures saw a Record Number of new cases. One was the western prefecture of osaka where the figure surpassed 200 for the first time. All of japans 47 prefectures have now reported cases after two infections were confirmed in ibate. Tokyo continues to be the hot spot with 250 new cases. Public Health Officials are also closely watching the raid of positive test results, a key indicator of how much the virus is spreading. That number stood at 1 on may 25th with a nationwide state of emergency was lifted. As of last friday, it had risen to 6. 6 . This Infectious Disease expert is worried, but he says weekly averages give a clearly picture than daily infection numbers. Translator the Current Situation seems very much like in early april when the first wave came just before the state of emergency was declared. I think well have to take thorough preventive measures more than ever without overreacting to the number of infections reported each day. In total more t
Role coronavirus cases being reported the pandemic is spreading rapidly but some countries still dont have the capacity to test people so is that hampering efforts to curb the disease this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter davi now the number of people infected by covert 19 is more than 700000 globally the number who have died over 34000 those are the estimates from Johns Hopkins university but do those figures accurately reflect reality if were talking about pure math curves usually indicate how severe cases are in a country and they show its ability to control a crisis but there are other factors too governments denying risk facts suppressed a lack of access to poor people and limited testing but be it in the slums the townships countries suffering conflicts and those without democracy is what is unknown is whether the outbreak is bigger than politicians are admitting or theyre able to handle correspondence in beijing johannesburg and mexico city report now o
Role coronavirus cases being reported the pandemic is spreading rapidly but some countries still dont have the capacity to test people so is that hampering efforts to curb the disease this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter davi now the number of people infected by covert 19 is more than 700000 globally the number who have died over 34000 those are the estimates from Johns Hopkins university but do those figures accurately reflect reality if were talking about pure math curves usually indicate how severe cases are in a country and they show its ability to control a crisis but there are other factors too governments denying risk facts suppressed a lack of access to poor people and limited testing but be it in the slums the townships countries suffering conflicts and those without democracy is what is unknown is whether the outbreak is bigger than politicians are admitting or theyre able to handle correspondence in beijing johannesburg and mexico city report now o
Role coronavirus cases being reported the pandemic is spreading rapidly but some countries still dont have the capacity to test people so is that hampering efforts to curb the disease this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter davi now the number of people infected by covert 19 is more than 700000 globally the number who have died over 34000 those are the estimates from Johns Hopkins university but do those figures accurately reflect reality if were talking about pure math curves usually indicate how severe cases are in a country and they show its ability to control a crisis but there are other factors too governments denying risk facts suppressed a lack of access to poor people and limited testing but be it in the slums the townships countries suffering conflicts and those without democracy is what is unknown is whether the outbreak is bigger than politicians are admitting or theyre able to handle correspondence in beijing johannesburg and mexico city report now o
And assumed his office in august of 2018. He will make some opening remarks. Following that, i will preside over some questions. And then, have anybody here who wants to ask a question to be able to do so. We will go until exactly 9 30. Everything is on the record. A question,have stand up, identify yourself, your filiation, and ask a question and not a long statement. That would be appreciated. One question per person would be appreciated. It is my honor to introduce the president of columbia. [applause] thank you so much. [applause] okay, its my honor to do you introduce the president of colombia, president duque. Thank you so much. Good morning. Its a great pleasure for me to be here with you. I want to thank you, david, for your introduction. I want to welcome friends from different think tanks, former public servants, members of the International Development bank organizations. So my great purpose of this morning is to, in ten minutes, try to describe where is colombia heading to,