Early by the one a Virus Outbreak and managed to keep things under control will be talking to a Public Health specialist in taipei and a new date for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics its in 2021 parker calendars july 23rd this after the games had to be postponed because of the global coronavirus and. Im called aspen thanks for joining us we begin in the United States where the death toll from copan 1000 now exceeds 3000 over a 3rd of those victims were from new york state whose governor has issued an urgent appeal for medical volunteers Governor Andrew Cuomo called the number of deaths staggering so far an 80000 for medical professionals have answered cuomo call meanwhile a u. S. Navy hospital ship has arrived to help relieve pressure on the citys overwhelmed hospitals. A welcome sight for new york. As the battle against the corona virus ramps up a u. S. Navy medical ship with a 1000 beds docked in new york harbor on monday. The mayor spoke of the citys frayed nerves with hospitals are already
Deb. I want to talk very briefly about two or three things. First, the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach we are going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, many questions of testing in this room for number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, there are a few things we could do with that. One of the things is when we make policy of what we are going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly those areas that are not hotspots, we need to know what the infection is there. We need to put a light on those dark spots that we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data. We are going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hotspots, that are not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In ot
Viktor orban an open ended extension to Emergency Powers in the battle against a pandemic but critics are calling it a power grab. Im sara kelly welcome to the program as more and more countries impose lockdowns because of the coronavirus india faces a bigger challenge than most its 1300000000 people have been ordered to say at home since last week but for the informal workers who form the backbone of the economy that means losing their income overnight leaving many without enough money for food and those hardest hit by the lockdown may now also be most at risk of catching the virus. A social distancing is a privilege that these people cannot afford all across india deliveries rushed to transportation hubs carrying whatever they could. The nationwide lockdown has put millions out of work and started a mass exodus from the cities. For these people who are leaving new delhi for their home towns the fear of starving is currently greater than the fear of infection with the coronavirus. If
Orban an open ended extension to Emergency Powers in the battle against the pandemic but critics are calling it a power grab. Im sorry kelly walk into the program around the world social distancing has become the montra of the day but in greece as overcrowded migrant camps like moria on the island of lesbos that is not possible conditions were already unsanitary and many migrants stuck there also have preexisting Health Problems aid organizations are now calling for the most vulnerable residents to be evacuated to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. In the maria refugee camp very few have been able to get a mask to protect against corona virus. There are more than 20000 People Living here in dire conditions lack of food washing areas and medicine are the norm at present there is a lot of disease here people are sick they have fevers and skin conditions like school b. S. And lice they cough and have breathing problems like asthma officially there are no coded 1000. 00 cases here but als
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