Olympics: Host city Tokyo enters fresh COVID-19 emergency as Games near
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Olympics: Host city Tokyo enters fresh COVID-19 emergency as Games near
Olympics: Host city Tokyo enters fresh COVID-19
emergency as Games near
Olympic host city Tokyo entered a fresh state of เล่นสล็อต emergency on Monday,
less than two weeks before the Games begin amid worries whether the measures
can stem a rise in COVID-19 cases.
Organisers last week announced that spectators would be banned from nearly
all venues, all but depriving of Japan of hopes for Games with public spectacle.
Spectators from abroad had been banned months ago, and officials are now asking
residents to watch on TV.
"We would ask people to support athletes from home," Chief Cabinet Secretary
Katsunobu Kato said on a Sunday TV programme.
The Games, postponed from last year because of the pandemic, run from Jul 23
to Aug 8, while the state of emergency - the capital's fourth - lasts until Aug 22,
shortly before the Paralympics begin.
The government and organisers had long seen the event as a chance to display
the country’s recovery from a devastating 2011 earthquake and nuclear crisis.
On Saturday, the governor of Fukushima prefecture, site of the nuclear disaster,
said spectators would also be banned from softball and baseball games there,
reversing an earlier decision.
World No 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic said on Sunday he was "50-50" about
competing at the Tokyo Olympics following the organisers' decision to ban fans
from attending and limits on the number of people he can take to the Games.
Some of the sport's biggest names, including Rafa Nadal, Dominic Thiem,
Stan Wawrinka, Nick Kyrgios, Serena Williams and Simona Halep have already
announced decisions to skip the Games.
Japan has not seen the explosive coronavirus outbreak seen elsewhere but has
recorded more than 815,440 cases and nearly 15,000 deaths. |
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