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The IOC vice president in charge of the Tokyo Olympics says the games will open in just over two months even if the city and other parts of Japan are under a state of emergency because of rising COVID-19 cases.
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With just two months to go before the Tokyo Olympics are scheduled to kick-off, opposition to holding the games at all has been building.
Japan is in the midst of its 4th wave of coronavirus infections and the medical community in Japan and internationally is insisting the games can’t be held safely and should be canceled.
In one of the strongest statements so far, the 6,000-member Tokyo Medical Practitioners’ Association called for the Olympics to be canceled in a letter sent last week to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, and Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the organizing committee.