In 10 weeks, the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics are set to get underway. Then Olympics are set to begin at the National Stadium in 10 weeks despite the pandemicRESIDENTS‘It is a recipe for disaster,’ says Games volunteer Barbara Holthus. It is dangerous.’Holthus is one of 110,000 Tokyo 2020 volunteers — a group who are feeling neglected by organisers. I still hope that somehow it’s going to be cancelled but money rules and money makes the decisions.’What is really worrying the Japanese public is that little more than two per cent of the population have received the vaccine so far. Meanwhile, an online petition headlined ‘Stop Tokyo Olympics’ has garnered more than 300,000 signatures since it launched last week.

Source: Daily Mail May 09, 2021 21:32 UTC