Global Pandemic: Japan's Cluster-Based Approach Has Had Success

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Japan has done a decent job fighting COVID-19 despite such close proximity to where the outbreak began. The government there points to their system of tracking cluster outbreaks and their population's willingness to adhere to voluntary advice. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Dr. Hitoshi Oshitani, a Member of Japan’s Government Advisory Panel on COVID-19, about the strategies Japan has implemented in the fight against the coronavirus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.0	I'm Martha McCallum. I'm Bill Hammer.
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0:19.0	Wednesday, September 16, 2020. I'm Trey Yinks.
0:25.0	Japan appears to be beating a second wave of COVID-19 by only implementing voluntary measures.
0:32.0	We do not implement the... by only implementing voluntary measures.
0:32.6	We do not implement any mandatory measures.
0:37.2	Most of all, probably all of our measures are voluntary bases,
0:41.8	including stay-at-home type of measures.
0:44.8	The most people follow the government instructions.
0:49.6	This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic. The Japanese government took a different approach to fighting coronavirus, make suggestions
1:01.3	for how to stay safe and let the public hold each other
1:03.8	accountable. Over the next few minutes you'll get the latest headlines on the global
1:07.8	COVID-19 outbreak and hear from Dr. Hitoshi O'Shatani a member of Japan's Government Advisory Panel on COVID-19, starting first in Spain,
1:17.2	where more than 600,000 cases have been reported.
1:20.4	Amid a massive second wave of the virus will be implemented by regional health authorities.
1:25.0	This week Spain surpassed 30,000 deaths from the virus.
1:28.0	Now to Jordan, that has seen more than 3,600 total cases.
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