MELBOURNE: Tokyo Games organisers face 'real problems' staging the Olympics next year as coronavirus infections continue to soar, senior ...
MELBOURNE: Tokyo Games organisers face"real problems" staging the Olympics next year as coronavirus infections continue to soar, senior international Olympic official John Coates said.
"Yesterday, there was 10,000 new cases in Brazil. Very few countries are as advanced in coping with this as . COVID-19 has infected more than five million people and killed about 334,000 people around the world, with countries like Brazil and the United States struggling with thousands of new cases every day.
"By October this year, if there are signs that it is being contained but not eradicated, then we are starting to work through — and we're preparing for it now — the different scenarios by which the sport could take place," he said.
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