Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Thursday announced a new state of health emergency in Tokyo in the face of increasing cases of Covid-19, which will remain in place for the duration of the Olympics due to open in two weeks.
"We are going to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo," Suga said at a government meeting on health measures, adding that it would last until August 22.
The Olympics are scheduled from July 23 to August 8.
A news that must have delighted Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), who arrived Thursday in Tokyo two weeks before the scheduled opening of the Olympics which will not look like much because of the pandemic.
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