Organisers are now desperately scrambling to prevent a super-spreader event. We are well aware of the scepticism obviously a number of people have here in Japan,” International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach said. “It goes without saying that all the concerned people were immediately isolated and this way they do not pose any risks to other participants or to the Japanese population.”
A ‘Tokyo Olympic strain’
Tokyo and several other Japanese cities are once again under a state of emergency as the country grapples with a rise in COVID-19 cases. Japan is currently seeing its highest number of daily infections since January.
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