By Syndicated Content
By Antoni Slodkowski and Kiyoshi Takenaka
TOKYO (Reuters) â The Tokyo Olympics is running a village for athletes and coaches where more than 80% are vaccinated against the coronavirus, testing is compulsory and movement is stringently curtailed.
None of that is true for the giant Japanese capital that surrounds the Olympic âbubbleâ.
The athletesâ village and Olympic press centre represent a huge, strict COVID-19 control zone for the more than 50,000 competitors, coaches, staff and journalists. Meanwhile, outside the fence, host city Tokyo â despite labouring through its fourth coronavirus lockdown as infections spike to record highs â is leading something like life as pandemic-normal.