Friday, April 16, 2021 00:18 (GMT + 7)
Toshihiro Nikai, secretary general of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), said on Thursday the government was reconsidering the organization of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics amid a sharp increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Japan. this country.
In an interview on Japanese television, Nikai said: “We have to cancel if there is no other option.”
He affirmed he wanted the event to be successful, and warned “there are many problems to be solved”. Before that, the world’s largest sporting event was delayed for a year and is being staged without an international audience.
The government is stepping up preparations to incorporate social segregation and audience restrictions for the Olympics, which will begin on July 23.
Recent polls show that very few Japanese support the organization of the Tokyo Olympics in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. On Twitter, the keyword “Canceling Olympics” is popular in Japan when there are 20,000 posts using this keyword on April 15.
On April 14 alone, Japan recorded more than 4,000 new cases of COVID-19, the highest since January 28. Japan’s top medical advisor, Shigeru Omi, admits the pandemic has begun to suffer from a fourth wave of COVID-19.
To date, Japan has recorded a total of 512,169 cases of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection, of which 9,469 died.
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