have thwarted government plans to extend the nation s health pass on january 15th. the pass must be displayed to access public places, bars, restaurants, and the like. it is proof that a person has either been vaccinated or recently tested negative for covid. but the government wants to eliminate that testing exception. in other words, a person would have to be vaccinated in order to engage in practically any public activity. after a noisy debate, the parliamentary session was suspended at midnight, but the government will try once again to push the legislation through, perhaps as early as today. reporter: i m blake in tokyo. in japan, the daily case count remains relatively low. earlier this week, the southern most prefecture of okinawa reported its highest single day total since last september. okinawa s local government is blaming the u.s. military. earlier this week, the u.s. military reported nearly 3,700
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we ve proven it here. united airlines have proven it. let s just go do it and i think it s going to take bluntly political courage amongst elected officials and even among ceos. there s no testing exception either. i mean, you re hardcore, right? you don t recognize if someone s had it nor is there a testing exception to your mandate. how come? because testing only allows you to find out if someone s got it. it doesn t help you stop it. we looked at the models in europe. they were much looser. i said if there s only one thing that we know works is vaccination, let s go all the way. right now 90%, as i said, 90% of new yorkers have had at least one dose, and even though we ve seen a business increase lately, our hospitals are doing very, very well. that s not true in the rest of a lot of this country and the rest of the state it s not true. our hospital system is strong, we thank god had very few deaths because the more people are vaccinated, the more people are going to make it thr