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Tokyo 2020 MUST be postponed warns senior Japanese Olympic Committee member Kaori Yamaguchi said Games must be delayed because athletes cannot prepare She is the first JOC board member to openly call for Games to be postponed Many major sporting events have been delayed because of the virus outbreak Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and … Read more
A flu drug is ‘clearly effective’ in treating coronavirus, medical experts in China have claimed. Favipiravir, the active ingredient in a Japanese anti-flu medicine called Avigan, was trialled on 340 patients with the killer disease in China. Patients who took Favipiravir recovered quicker and showed greater lung improvement compared with patients not given the drug. … Read more
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledges the Olympics will go ahead as planned despite other high-profile sporting events falling victim to coronavirus pandemic Abe said the Tokyo Olympics would go ahead as scheduled in July this year Donald Trump suggested yesterday that they should be postponed by a year Japan has so far reported more … Read more
Asian shares plunged as much as 10 per cent today as the coronavirus crisis brought more turmoil to financial markets. Benchmarks in Japan, Thailand and India all dropped today in the wake of Wall Street’s biggest plunge since the Black Monday crash of 1987. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell nearly 10 per cent in the morning … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES In doubt The scale of the outbreak in Japan saw senior International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound describe the disease as ‘the new war’ threatening Tokyo 2020 and he warned the Games may have to be cancelled if the virus was still around by May. Olympic organisers told athletes to train as normal … Read more
An American art teacher has been quarantined in China since he arrived to the country six days ago and is giving DailyMailTV an inside look at his mandatory government isolation Originally from Miami, Florida, Branden Paillant, 30, is an American living and working in China – the epicenter of the corona outbreak where over 3,000 … Read more
Twitter orders all of its staff around the world to work from home over coronavirus fears Social media platform widened mandatory work from home policy across globe Twitter earlier asked its staff in South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan to stay home Company has also suspended all ‘non-critical’ business travel amid coronavirus By Faith Ridler For … Read more
Beijing today ordered people arriving in the city from any country to go into 14-day quarantine as China reported an increase in imported coronavirus cases, threatening its progress against the epidemic. China has made major strides in its battle against the virus, prompting President Xi Jinping to visit Wuhan, the central city at the heart … Read more
Cancelling Tokyo 2020 is ‘inconceivable’, Japan’s Olympic minister says… but warns the IOC will have to make ‘an appropriate decision’ Seiko Hashimoto said International Olympic Committee to make ‘final decision’ She added that from the ‘viewpoint of athletes’ a cancellation is ‘inconceivable’ Coronavirus epidemic has infected 581 and been linked to 12 deaths in Japan … Read more
‘I feel betrayed’: Former British Army sergeant is stuck in Fiji and being prevented from returning to his cancer-stricken wife in UK over immigration law Ilaitia Cokanasiga, 48, from Fiji, has been blocked from entering the UK He served in the British army for 14 years and felt immense pride at his role He has … Read more