With one year to go, experts warn of high-risk Tokyo Olympics amid pandemic

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With just over a year to go until the Tokyo Olympics, medical experts say the event could pose a grave health risk to the Japanese public, ...

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TOKYO: With just over a year to go until the Tokyo Olympics, medical experts say the event could pose a grave health risk to the Japanese public, predicting that few people will have coronavirus antibodies and that vaccines will not be widely available.

"Infection will flare up if we push ahead with the Olympics and hold them. There is no doubt about it," said Daiichi Morii, a doctor at Osaka University Hospital's infection control team. "Very few are infected in Japan and pretty much everyone is susceptible," said Katsunori Yanagihara, professor in Nagasaki University's school of tropical medicine and global health.

A Tokyo voter survey by the Asahi Shimbun daily late last month showed that 59 per cent of those polled believe the Olympics should be cancelled or postponed again, underscoring the public's nagging worries about the pandemic.

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