tokyo reported its second consecutive day of more than 1,000 new cases, a trend that s been continuing for weeks now. we know that not everyone who is traveling to the city will be vaccinated. how do you prevent this from being one of those superspreader events? well, as you may be aware, i actually wrote a piece with some of my colleagues in the new england journal of medicine laying out the challenges for holding the olympics in japan, knowing this very moment where the delta variant would be taking off in japan, knowing worldwide this was occurring and people would be coming with the virus as well as the fact that volunteers who were working at the olympics would be interfacing with these athletes. we tried to work with the olympic committee, with the government of japan to help them improve their ability to try to prevent transmission, but i think it is going to be a challenge. i hope that we can get through the olympics without a major
of new infections since the end ofjanuary, almost 28,000. public health england has urged football fans to watch england s euro 2020 match on saturday outside to try to keep infection rates down. here s our health editor hugh pym. scenes like these on tuesday after england s victory seem set to be repeated as the team progress in the tournament. public health officials are urging people to follow the guidelines, advising them to avoid gathering indoors. data in scotland revealed a number of cases were linked to fans travelling to london two weeks ago. you have the potential for lots of superspreader events all across europe, not just from fans travelling to actual matches, but fans travelling to the cities and then going to the bars and celebrating, on trains, on public transport, but also at each other s houses. the organising body uefa has been branded as utterly irresponsible