It is expected that a meeting will be held on the night of the 8th by five parties including the Games Organizing Committee, the government, and the IOC = International Olympic Committee to discuss the spectators of the Tokyo Olympics.

At the meeting, in response to the fourth state of emergency being declared in Tokyo, from the perspective of further reducing the flow of people, it is expected that the venues in 1 metropolitan area and 3 prefectures will be considered, including the absence of spectators, and the treatment of spectators will be decided. is.



Regarding the audience of the Tokyo Olympics, the Organizing Committee, the government, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the IOC, and the IPC = International Paralympic Committee will say in June that if priority measures such as prevention of spread are lifted based on government standards, In principle, we have decided to limit the maximum number of people to 10,000 within 50% of the capacity at all venues.



However, after that, the spread of the infection did not stop in Tokyo, and the government plans to issue a state of emergency to Tokyo from July 12th on the 8th.



In response to this, it is expected that a meeting will be held on the night of the 8th by the five parties who will discuss the treatment of the spectators of the Tokyo Olympics again.



The government's event limit in areas where a state of emergency has been declared is limited to 50% of the venue's capacity or less than 5,000 people, and the time is, in principle, 9 pm.



Based on these standards, in addition to the plan to limit the number of spectators to 5,000 at the Tokyo Olympics, from the perspective of further controlling the flow of people and preventing infection based on the infection situation and the opinions of experts, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba It is expected that a plan to make the venues in 1 metropolitan area and 3 prefectures unattended will be considered.



At the meeting, we will discuss the intentions of the local government where the venue is located and decide how to treat the audience.