Tokyo Olympics still on despite Covid-19 surge; fresh calls to postpone or cancel
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  • 3 years ago
Tokyo's Olympics chief said on Friday that Japan was committed to holding a safe Games this summer, as a surge in Covid-19 cases prompted an expansion of contagion controls and with fresh calls for the Games to again be postponed or cancelled.

The Tokyo Games are set to kick off on July 23.

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