Olympics: Tokyo Games at risk if coronavirus mutates, gets stronger, says Japan adviser

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TOKYO (REUTERS) - The Tokyo Olympics may have to be postponed again if the novel coronavirus mutates into a stronger pathogen, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a prominent Japanese government adviser, said on Wednesday (July 15).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO - The Tokyo Olympics may have to be postponed again if the novel coronavirus mutates into a stronger pathogen, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a prominent Japanese government adviser, said on Wednesday .

A physician who served as a science adviser to the Japanese cabinet from 2006-2008, Kurokawa also headed an independent probe into the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster."I think the virus is mutating all the time ... it may be a much stronger virus that triggers a second wave," Dr Kurokawa told Reuters."The Olympics may be postponed again, but I can't predict."

"But if there are some mutations, that is a completely different story. That could happen anywhere in the world."

 

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