Coronavirus: Japan declares state of emergency

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Japan's capital Tokyo and six other regions have been placed in a state of emergency due to a spike in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths. Could the move push the world's third-largest economy into recession? Yoko Ishikura, Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo gives her thoughts. To mark Global Health Day, Lucy Burton examines how healthcare systems around the world are under strain due to the pandemic. And as America's biggest and most important survey - the US census - gets underway we explore how authorities plan to collect the statistics during an outbreak. (Image: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives a press conference. Credit: Getty)