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A physician representing a Japanese medical body warned Thursday that holding the postponed Tokyo Olympics in two months could lead to the spread of variants of the coronavirus.
Dr. Naoto Ueyama, chairman of the Japan Doctors Union, said the International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government had underestimated the risks of bringing 15,000 Olympic and Paralympic athletes into the country, joined by tens of thousands of officials, judges, media and broadcasters from more than 200 countries and territories. Since the emergence of COVID-19 there has not been such a dangerous gathering of people coming together in one place from so many different places around the world,” he said, speaking in Tokyo at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan. It’s very difficult to predict what this could lead to.
Fears deadly ‘Olympic’ Covid variant could be spawned at Tokyo Games as thousands flock stadiums & hospitals collapse
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DOCTORS in Japan have warned that the Olympic games could spawn an Olympic Covid-19 strain as thousands flock to stadiums.
It comes as the US warns fans not to travel to Japan for the games in the summer after a surge in coronavirus cases that has pushed hospitals to the brink of collapse.
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A roadside in the Shiga Prefecture city of Kusatsu in western Japan is crowded with people todayCredit: Avalon.red
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Doctor Hiroki Saito closed plastic curtain at emergency and critical care room at St. Marianna University Yokohama Seibu HospitalCredit: Reuters