Tokyo says Olympics will go ahead, will not be held behind closed doors. FMTNews Japan Tokyo
A man wearing a mask walks past a countdown clock for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Kentaro Iwata, a professor of infectious disease at Kobe University, said on his blog on Thursday that it’s not clear that the outbreak in Japan will have subsided by the planned start of the Games in July.Japanese government officials have said the Olympics will go ahead as scheduled and will not be held behind closed doors.
Iwata boarded the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in February and his YouTube videos decrying the conditions there garnered more than a million views.
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