Contact by 80 to curb the spread of the virus. Theyve also asked nonessential businesses to close. A team of experts in japan is warning people not to become complacent about staying safe. The worstcase scenario could see more than 400,000 people die worldwide if no measures are taken to contain infections. Translator if the epidemic is allowed to spread without any measures being taken the number of seriously ill patients will exceed the number of artificial respirators at hand. He added that at the peak, which is still to come, 850,000 people could be in serious condition. 22 other people at the home already tested positive this week. As the government tightens travel restrictions andnd stepsp quarantine measures, the number of visitors to japan drastically dropped last month. The Japan National Tourism Organization estimate thats about 194,000 visitors arrived in the country in march, down 93 from the same month last year. Foreign travellers from china and south korea each dropped m
Basic duty and must be held accountable. He says a review is now under way to assess the w. H. O. s role in promoting what he called chinas disinformation that might have led to the wider spread of the coronavirus. Now to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The International Monetary fund has drastically cut its growth forecast for the Global Economy. It warns that the world is likely to experience the worst recession since the great depression. The imf f predicts t the Global Economy will s shrink by 3 in 2020. Thats down sharply y from the 3. 3 expxpansion fororecasted i janunuary. The declinine would bebe far wo than 2009 in the aftermath of the financial crisis when the economy contracted by a fraction of a percent. The imf predicts the u. S. Economy will shrink by almost 6 . Japan is expected toto see a contraction of more than 5 . Chinas growth rate is likely to stay positive but just barely at a little over 1 . The figures for europe are equally dire. Italy is ex
Zero but market uncertainty still growing as Financial Institutions horde the u. S. Dollar. The latest move is seen as an attempt to prevent something on the scale of the 2008 Global Financial crisis. Meanwhile, finance ministers and central bankers from the group of 20 countries discussed the pandemic during an emergency Conference Call on monday. Translator g20 members have an extremely Important Role to play. Were determined the take all possible measures without hesitation to overcome this situation. He told reporters the development of coronavirus medicines will be the key to overcomie ining the crisis. He said nations should implement sufficient economic and fiscal measures. He stressed the g20 members should support countries with poor medical services. He says this can be done if the members cooperate with organizations such as the International Monetary fund and the world bank. The finance minister says leaders of the g20 plan to hold a Conference Call as early as this week. T
We continue the release. In the Moscow Region, military personnel released from ukrainian captivity arrived on a special flight from belgorod. The first, starting in august, exchanges with kiev were carried out through the mediation of the United Arab Emirates. A total of 248 soldiers were returned to their homeland. 75 of them were still on the Summer Exchange lists. Then ukraine took it. Members of azov, banned from russia, and did not fulfill its obligations towards the russians. The process is now complete. Word to dmitry petrov. One of the airfields in the Moscow Region has just completed landing of the il76, boarding from belgorod, it delivered the first group of Russian Military personnel released from captivity. The board taxis into the parking lot and the ramp opens. Buses and an ambulance for the wounded immediately arrive at the plane. Everyone else can move independently. Although nikita from krasnoyarsk is limping a little, we really waited, waited for this day, waited for
Perjury. Were just learning the charges are perjury, false swearing and obstruction. Also abuse of office is another charge. We have reporters in this conference room. Were going to listen in to the News Conference as it begins. I think theyre just making sure everybody is in place. Ing at the d. A. In Montgomery County. Kathleen kane is 49 years old. Were seeing where and when theyre about to begin this News Conference. Here we go. Were here today to announce the filing of criminal charges against Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane. The charges include obstruction of law and other offenses that relate to a scheme that we allege she original straighted to leak confidential investigative information and secret grand jury materials, and then lying to a grand jury to cover up and conceal her crimes. The genesis of this investigation is a referral we received in december of 2014 from judge William Carpenter of the Montgomery County court of common pleas who was also the supervisin