TOKYO (AFP): Japan is at a 'crossroads' in preventing a major coronavirus outbreak and may need to reconsider the Olympics if domestic transmissions are not brought under control, an expert advising the government has warned.
A man visits a beach as snow-capped Mount Fuji is visible in the distance in Fujisawa, Japan, on Feb 27, 2020. The Japanese government has come under pressure for a relatively hands-off approach when in comes to containing the Covid-19 epidemic. - AP
"We are now on the crossroads for the containment of the Covid-19 or the... outbreak of this Covid-19 within our country," said Ohmagari, director of the department of infectious diseases at Japan's National Centre for Global Health and Medicine. "If we keep going with what we are doing right now we do have significant possibility for the containment or the elimination of this Covid-19," he said.
Ohmagari acknowledged that"limiting the number of tests makes grasping the true number of cases impossible," but said the tests could not detect asymptomatic cases anyway.Japan has also faced significant criticism for its handling of a cruise ship placed in quarantine after a former passenger contracted the virus.
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