China News Service, Tokyo, July 19 (Reporter Wang Zumin) The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will open in 4 days.

How the Olympic Games, which is the first postponement in the history of the Olympic Games and is still under an "emergency", will be the focus of attention from the outside world.

  The reporter arrived in Tokyo on the afternoon of the 18th and discovered after a 24-hour "first experience" that the epidemic has greatly reduced the Olympic atmosphere here, and epidemic prevention has become the focus of this Olympic city.

The reporter stayed on the street in front of the hotel.

Photo by Wang Zumin

The epidemic dilutes the Olympic atmosphere

  There is a four-day countdown to the opening of the Olympics. The "carnival" mode has already been opened in the previous Olympic Games, but Tokyo still maintains the "silent" state under the epidemic.

  The hotel where the reporter stayed is a designated media hotel, which is definitely an area related to the Olympics.

However, in the hotel and surrounding areas, the reporter did not find any Olympic-related elements, and pedestrians were rarely seen.

Olympic-related personnel waiting for nucleic acid testing at the airport.

Photo by Wang Zumin

  On the morning of the 19th, reporters from the hotel to the press center, in more than half an hour's drive, also rarely saw passers-by and Olympic signs-the openness and quietness that they saw and heard makes it hard to imagine that the city will be in 4 days from now. Host the world-renowned Olympics.

  According to official sources, as of the 18th, Japan has added more than 3,000 new confirmed cases of new crowns in a single day for 5 consecutive days, and Tokyo has added more than 1,000 confirmed cases for 5 consecutive days.

Since July, 58 people related to the Olympics have been infected.

  These heavy data, while further diluting the Olympic atmosphere, have also increasingly highlighted the importance of epidemic prevention.

Epidemic prevention is a top priority

  Nucleic acid testing should be the most direct means of epidemic prevention.

After arriving in Tokyo, all Olympic-related personnel need to be tested at the airport, and the results are the same before they can leave.

Due to the approach of the Olympics and the increasing number of people arriving, the reporter stayed at the airport for about 8 hours from the time the flight landed to the time the flight was allowed to leave.

A restaurant in the press center.

Photo by Wang Zumin

  In the next three days, media reporters need to go to the press center for nucleic acid tests every day, and at least 5 more times before the Olympics closes (August 8).

  In fact, in order to effectively prevent the epidemic, all overseas participants including athletes, journalists, and staff have been included in the Olympic epidemic prevention plan before leaving.

For example, two weeks before arriving in Japan, media reporters must "check in" daily through the organizing committee's health declaration APP to report body temperature, health status and other information.

96 hours before departure, two nucleic acid tests are required and a doctor’s diagnosis certificate is provided.

In front of an Olympic souvenir shop, people in the line consciously kept a distance.

Photo by Wang Zumin

Details convey warmth

  Under the severe situation of the epidemic, some details not only reflect the local dedication and responsibility for epidemic prevention, but also convey a concern and warmth.

  It was late at night when the reporter left the airport on the 18th. In order to prevent cross-infection, the organizing committee arranged taxis to take all personnel to the hotel one-on-one.

  In the hotel where the reporter is staying, although there is only one media, there are still anti-epidemic personnel specially appointed by the organizing committee; at the entrances of some shops, elevators and other public places where the reporters pass by, disinfectant and hand sanitizer are placed in eye-catching places; Convenience stores, if cash is used, will implement contactless payment; in media restaurants, each table is separated by a transparent baffle, and the desk has a prompt to maintain an effective distance...

Disinfectant placed in front of some public places.

Photo by Wang Zumin

China strives for "zero infection"

  While waiting for the shuttle bus back to the hotel from the press center, a volunteer from China laughed to reporters and said that here, the Chinese people are best recognized and the most protected are the most secure.

  This statement is indeed true.

After arriving in Tokyo, wherever the reporter went, it was common for Chinese coaches, players, and reporters to see N95 masks and goggles even if they were “low-matched”. Chinese people wearing gloves, face shields, and protective clothing were also common.

In the airport staff, there is still a considerable part of them wearing ordinary medical surgical masks—the Chinese are so tightly protected that it far surpasses the staff who provide Olympic services at airports and other places.

  The self-protection consciousness of the Chinese people is not only a good protection habit cultivated in the country, but also a sense of responsibility to cooperate with the organizing committee’s epidemic prevention requirements. It is also to achieve the pre-match goal of the Chinese delegation: to maintain the first rank in the gold medal list. At the same time, "zero infection" is achieved.

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