PM Abe announces emergency; UK PM's health worsens

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced emergency on Tuesday for the capital Tokyo and six other prefectures to stem a worrying rise in coronavirus infections in major population centres; India, like a lot of countries plunged into crisis by the pandemic, is struggling to ramp up testing for the coronavirus; British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being treated for worsening coronavirus symptoms in an intensive care unit, with his foreign minister deputizing for him as the nation tackles the COVID-19 crisis. Watch this and more on News Blast.

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