20200608 (Monday) Coronavirus Digest from Japanese Morning TV News Part 1 (of 1): News
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Today’s Japan Covid-related NHK morning news topics:
- Tokyo’s nightlife district: Looking at strengthening measures
- Businesses restarting but situation is tough
- 2nd supplementary budget Diet deliberations start today
Down at the bottom:
Brazil has stopped announced its daily infection and death toll and is only publicizing its recovered patients figures.
Special Report was on Sign Language interpreters for Covid announcements.
[Fun fact: On March 3, 11 prefectures were using interpreters, this grew during the State of Emergency and from May 22, every single prefecture has one.]
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38 new cases yesterday.
14 in Tokyo, 5 in Kanagawa and 4 in Hokkaido.
Another 6 in quarantine after coming back from overseas.
3 in Fukuoka.
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6 out of the 14 Tokyo cases were connected to night businesses.
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Here’s the breakdown of the proportion over the last week.
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Measures that could possibly be taken:
For hostess clubs:
Calling on workers to take PCR tests.
Setting up a consultation window.
Distributing “approved” stickers to businesses that follow guidelines.
[Having staff and customers wear face guards, etc.]
Virus surveys on sewage, etc.
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Economics minister/head of expert panel says that they expect to gather together infection prevention guidelines for hostess clubs within this week.
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Just one new case in Kansai, in Osaka.
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JR East is offering an app that allows you to see how crowded the Yamanote line is in almost realtime.
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The train icons represent their current locations.
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Click on a given train to see its current level of crowding.
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One person icon: There are seats to sit on.
Two: You can stand in ample space.
Three: You can read a folded newspaper
Four: Shoulders touching
Five: Really quite crowded
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9 major private train companies operating in the capital and others outside the capital offer updates on the state of train crowding on their homepage.
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Finally, not covid-related but shoutout to all the people who attended the Black Lives Matter demo in Osaka.
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It was briefly flashed up on the news. Official attendance was put at 1000 people. [This may have been subsequently revised to 2000.]
[Followed by a look at Thailand who had done their demo on Zoom.]
Bonus: This was a march in Tokyo the previous weekend.
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