Spectators banned from tokyo olympics After 125 Years
Look at tokyo coming up on midnight there. And there is breaking news coming out of japan organizers have announced a total ban on all spectators at the 2020 olympic game events in the city. Earlier a state of emergency was declared in the city due to a rise in covid 19 cases all of this think of the timing.
It comes just two weeks before the start of the games. Freelance reporter phoebe amoroso is standing by live right there in tokyo so why the ban. Why now phoebe well we've seen an increase in covid cases over the past few weeks and organizers have been clinging on to holding the games with spectators. Just a few weeks back where tokyo was under a state of emergency from june the 21st.
It was under a quasi state of emergency which are less strict restrictions and at that time. The organizers decided they would put a cap at 10 000 or 50 percent of the venue capacity. But since then cases have ticked upwards and upwards and just in the past week yesterday for example 920 new cases in tokyo the highest since may.
The Keypoints For Article
- Olympics coordinators will restrict onlookers from the games in Tokyo, after Japan announced a highly sensitive situation in the midst of rising Covid-19 cases in the country.
- The choice presents another test for the games, which were at that point postponed every year because of the pandemic.
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