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As I mentioned earlier, US oil prices dipped to a 20-year low as deep concerns about the economic impact of the coronavirus continue. You can read Martin Farrer’s global wrap of events below:
Oil prices have slumped to their lowest for two decades as doubts grew about Donald Trump’s hopes of ending the US lockdown and investors braced for a week of potentially damaging figures about the impact of the coronavirus on the world economy.
Here’s some more from Justin McCurry in Toyko on Kentaro Iwata, an expert in infectious diseases at Kobe University Hospital, who has cast doubt on the Olympics in Japan being able to go ahead next year.
Iwata warned that Japan’s hospitals were struggling to deal with Covid-19 patients, adding that the government’s response to the recent rise in infections had been too slow. He said Japan’s initial approach – to identify and contain infection clusters – had worked well until major cities such as Tokyo and Osaka started reporting significant rises in cases from the second half of March.
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