Under mounting pressure from athletes, federations and national committees to postpone the Games, the IOC did a partial U-turn on Sunday after long insisting, with Tokyo organisers, that the Games would go ahead as planned. Tokyo 2020 organisers have started drafting alternative dates for the Olympics, sources have told Reuters. More than 14,600 people have died globally since the coronavirus outbreak began in China late last year, with the epicentre now in Europe. As of Sunday morning, Japan had 37 deaths and 1,055 coronavirus cases, excluding those from a cruise ship that was quarantined near Tokyo last month and returnees on chartered flights from China, a tally by public broadcaster NHK showed. Echoing Abe’s remarks on potential Olympics delays, Tokyo’s governor Yuriko Koike said the pace of coronavirus infection rates in the city was becoming faster, asking people to refrain from public gatherings for the next three weeks.
At the current speed, the number of patients with coronavirus in Tokyo is expected grow by 530 through April 8, according to experts advising the city. As of March 22, the number of confirmed cases in Tokyo was 130, with four dead, the Tokyo government said. Prime Minister Abe said all travellers from the United States, including Japanese citizens, would be asked to go into quarantine for 14 days after their arrival in Japan.
In the United States nearly one in three residents has been ordered to stay at home to slow the spread of the flu-like virus as cases nationwide topped 32,000, with more than 415 dead, according to a tally. Japan’s foreign ministry has advised citizens to avoid non-essential and non-urgent travel to the United States.
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