but first, japan isn t immune to rising covid cases. they are seeing the worst outbreak since the pandemic began. wednesday saw a record of more than 3000 cases in tokyo alone. i am joined by mariko oi in tokyo. organisers have confirmed to the games that there are some hospitalisations related to games cases? that is right, confirmed that two related officials from abroad have now been hospitalised here in tokyo. this is basically what people were concerned about, as the number of covid cases against a rise notjust among the japanese people, but among officials and athletes. what they get the priority over japanese citizens? two people isn t a lot, butjust last night we heard from the tokyo