Japan’s 2020 Olympics committee may seek further vaccine donations to make the rescheduled Games as safe as possible, Tokyo 2020’s chief executive said after a board meeting on Tuesday, stressing that there had been no talk of further delays. Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto flatly denied there had been any talk of a cancellation or further postponement at the executive board meeting. of the spread of infection in Japan and also in other countries after the Olympics,” the London Times quoted Oshitani as saying. “There are a number of countries that do not have many cases, and a number that don’t have any variants. We should not make the Olympics [an occasion] to spread the virus to these countries,” he added, noting most countries lack vaccines.

Source: The Irish Times June 08, 2021 15:30 UTC