AGI – Le Olympic Games that they will start next July 23 in Tokyo may not have an audience: this is what the prime minister of Japan has assumed, Yoshihide Suga, worried about the increase in infections in the capital in exactly 3 weeks since the beginning of the Games.
“The safety and security of the Japanese people are the top priority with which we will decide the actions“Suga said, speculating how “possible” that the games take place behind closed doors. Last month it was established a limit of 10 thousand people in the stands or 50% of the seats occupied depending on the venue of the competitions.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces the possibility of the Olympics being held behind closed doors
I almost said Covid-19 have increased since end of the state of emergency, last month. The current restrictive measures reduced, expiring on 11 July, could be extended and therefore still be in effect at the moment of the start of the Olympics, according to the Japanese newspapers, and predict the presence of a maximum of 5 thousand spectators at sporting events.
The Japan has so far recorded a number of cases and deaths from the pandemic rather content, but only l’11% of the population is completely vaccinated. Since the start of the pandemic, they have registered 802,038 infections and 14,754 deaths out of a population of 126 million inhabitants; only a Tokyo, the infections were 174,675 and the dead 2,220.
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