Slightly but are still topping 100 with 165 cases reported on wednesday. Experti expertings are oespecially concern concerned. Translator the numbers couod be many times from now. That would mean 1200 people. It would increase my 256 fold. The governor is calling on residents to refrain from nonessential travel to other prefecture prefecture. The number of infections continue to rise in other parts of japan. 61 cases were confirmed in the western prefecture of osaka on wednesday. Thats the highest since the nationwide state of emergency was lifted in may. Now, across japan, morore than 22,000 people have tested positive for the coronavirus. Nearly 1,000 people have died. Officials are also closely watching developments in the southern prefecture of okinawa home to several m military u. S. Bases. The okinawa governor met the defense minister in tokyo. He asked the minister to push the u. S. Militaryy to swiftly provide detailed information on the infected people. Translator i hope he w
A major river over lowed in the city of heat that a. Woman in her 70s is missing after her home was washed away. More flooding is expected in several cities along the river. Theyre racing to rescue elderly residents. Hundreds of people have been calling for help along a river where houses have been submerged. It was scary. The water was up to my neck t translator the water camep to my waist. I was using all of my strength to wade through, but was almost swept away. Rescue crews found an elderly woman submerged in a house and was later confirmed dead. Rivers have flooded in a dozen places n. A bank along the couple ma river has collapsed and a bridge has been swept away. Many train and express bus services have been suspended across the region. Thousands of homes are without electricity. We turn to our meteorologist sayaka mori with the latest on the situation in southwestern japan. Rain is becoming heavy once again across the northern places of kyushu. A northern barrow of rain calling
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State of emergency for tokyo and six other prefectures. Abe shinzo is calling for the publics cooperation to help keep the virus from spreading. Translator i strongly believe that it will be posossie to get out of this situation by having a state of emergency in place for one mondays. If we reduce our contact with people by at least 70 or preferably, 80 . The declaration covers tokyo, kanagawa, saitama, chiba, osaka, and fukuoka. It will be in place until may 6. The governors of those prefefectures held a teleconference wednesday morning to discuss how to counter the virus. Theyre calling on the local government to support medical systems and compensate businesses that close temporarily. The government is not imposing a lockdown as some foreign governments have. Officials want to minimize the impact on economic and social activities. Public transformation and super markets will remain open. A number of Companies Said they will shut down voluntarily like coffee shops like starbucks. Peo
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