Japan\u2019s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Thursday declared to place Tokyo under the fourth state of emergency for the duration of the upcoming Olympics to curb a recent rise in COVID-19 cases. Last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was postponed and now scheduled to take place from July 23. The state of emergency will come into force on July 12 and will remain till August 22.<\/p>\n
According to livemint.com, Kyodo News quoted Yasutoshi Nishimura, the minister in charge of the nation\u2019s COVID-19 response, \u201cWe are hoping to keep people from moving around during the summer break and the Bon holidays until vaccinations move further along.\u201d<\/p>\n
As per Kyodo News, the Japanese government had initially decided to keep Tokyo under a quasi-state of emergency but had to change the decision due to a rapid increase in the COVID-19 surge. The Tokyo metropolitan government had reported 920 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday which is the highest daily figure since mid-May.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) chief Thomas Bach arrived in Tokyo. He is expected to hold a meeting with concerned members of the Japanese bodies to plan on a new crowd policy in stadiums. Before, the organisers of the Tokyo Olympics were deciding to cut the number of spectators to a maximum of 5,000. The foreign spectators are banned, only domestic spectators are allowed. As the Tokyo Olympics is starting from July 23 to August 8 with 10,000 spectators or 50% of the venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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