Tokyo medical association calls for Olympic Games to be cancelled

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As Japan battles a surge in coronavirus cases and with a poor vaccine rollout, doctors are urging the IOC to cancel the Games

A protester holds a placard during a protest against the Tokyo Olympics in Tokyo, Japan on May 17 2021. With less than three months remaining until the Tokyo Olympics, a recent survey has indicated that around 60% of Japanese people do not want the Games to go ahead. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/YUICHI YAMAZAKI

“We strongly request that the authorities convince the International Olympic Committee that holding the Olympics is difficult and obtain its decision to cancel the Games,” the association said in a May 14 open letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga that was posted to its website on Monday. Other health experts and medical groups have voiced their concern about the Olympics, while an online petition calling for the Games to be cancelled was signed by hundreds of thousands of people.

Underscoring the challenges with the vaccinations, booking systems for mass inoculation sites being launched in Tokyo and Osaka — which started accepting bookings on Monday — were marred by technical glitches. But multiple, pre-Olympic training camps, including one for the US’s track and field team, have been cancelled and athletes have voiced concern about the Games taking place in the midst of a global pandemic.

 

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