Kuso Tachima infected with the Coruna virus ... and Japan is determined to hold the 2020 Olympics on time

Kuso Tachima, Vice President of the Japanese Olympic Committee and President of the Local Football Association, announced on Tuesday that he had contracted the new Corona virus, in an announcement that comes with increasing doubts that Tokyo will be able to host the 2020 Summer Olympics in time, in light of the global outbreak of "Covid-19".

"Today, my test result for the new Corona virus came positive," said Tashima, who is also a member of the FIFA Council, on the Asian continent in a statement distributed by the Japan Football Association.

The Japanese official indicated that he had been on a business trip since February 28, during which he visited Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, to attend a meeting of the World Board of Football, before moving to the Dutch Amsterdam on the second of March for a meeting with the European Union (WIFA) in order to make an offer. On Japan's nomination to host the 2023 Women's World Cup.

On the third of the same month, he also attended a meeting of the European Union.

"In Amsterdam and Europe in early March, the level of anxiety (from the emerging SK virus) was not the same as it is now. Everyone was still hugging, shaking hands, and kissing on the cheek," Toshima said in his statement.

After Europe, the vice president of the Olympic Committee moved to the United States to follow up with the women's team and to promote Japan's candidacy to host the women's World Cup, before returning to his country on the eighth of March.

Tokyo is to host the Summer Olympics between July 24 and August 9. Despite the assertion by Japanese and International Committee officials that the preparations are proceeding as scheduled for the holding of the games on time, doubts are growing locally and globally about the possibility of preserving this date in light of the global outbreak of the new Corona virus, and the negative impact it imposed on various sports activities, in addition to restrictions The vast range of traffic and travel.

Today, the International Olympic Committee holds executive committee meetings over the phone, aiming to "prepare an exchange of information with representatives of athletes, national Olympic committees and the International Federation during a series of telephone meetings scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday."

The committee set these meetings in the framework of exchanging information and informing the athletes and federations of the situation, knowing that it also coincides with an emergency meeting of the European Football Association (WIFA) via video calling technology with representatives of the federations, national championships and players, with the aim of deciding the fate of the two club competitions (Champions League and Europa League). For the remainder of the current season, and the European Cup 2020 finals, which are scheduled to start on June 12, after the suspension of most competitions locally and continental.