'If the Olympics were to spread infection, then what are the Olympics for?'
The Games had to be postponed from last July and August as the coronavirus spread around the world and are now scheduled for July 23-Aug. 8.
The organizers unveiled a 'playbook' detailing COVID-19 measures that will be taken during the Summer Games this year.
The government's top spokesman Katsunobu Kato told reporters on Monday he was unaware of any decision on the issue.
hashtag 'Mori, please resign' was trending on Twitter in Japan
Scientists and medical experts are concerned about how things might look next summer, a year after the Tokyo Games were postponed.
As an admirer of Japan for close to half a century, I care for Japan and expect Suga to respect the sentiment of his people and cancel the Olympics without further delay, says Rajaram Panda.
Russia was banned from the world's top sporting events for four years on Monday, a period that includes the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, for tampering with doping-related laboratory data. The World Anti-Doping Agency concluded that Moscow had tampered with laboratory data by planting fake evidence and deleting files linked to positive doping tests that could have helped identify drug cheats.
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