Now more about plans for next year’s Tokyo Olympics:
Athletes taking part in next summer’s Olympics in Tokyo will not need to be isolated for 14 days after arriving in Japan, organizers said, as Japan has come up with the logic of hosting sports during a global epidemic.
The Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee has not yet prepared the details, but has suggested that competitors will be exempted from the current quarantine measures for all foreign visitors to Japan.
Instead, 11,000 athletes, along with thousands of officials, judges, sponsors and journalists, will have to undergo a negative test for Covid-19 within 72 hours of their arrival, according to media reports.
“Athletes, coaches and sports officials … will be allowed to enter the country, if significant steps are taken before they arrive in Japan,” Toshiro Muto, Tokyo 2020’s chief executive officer, told a news conference.
However, no decision has been made on foreign spectators, while Muto admitted that he would have to spend 14 days in solitude in Japan, making it impossible.
The decision on access to foreign sports fans will be made next spring, which will be tested before and after arriving in Japan, and will be limited to visitors from countries that control overseas sponsorship. They can also be asked to download tracking and health apps.
“By next spring, we will have a plan for viewers, including non-Japanese viewers.” “It is impossible to determine the 14-day quarantine period for foreign visitors, so tests are required before and after arrival.”
Japan has used domestic football and baseball matches for coronavirus prevention measures that could be featured at the Olympics, which were postponed a year ago due to an epidemic. It urges fans not to sing or not to sing.
“It is possible that we will avoid shouting at the audience and speaking out loud. “But we haven’t come to any conclusions,” Muto said.
Some baseball stadiums in Japan have experimented with 80% of the fan capacity.
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, will travel to Tokyo next week on his first visit, after which the Games were postponed to March.
When asked by reporters if Bach had included contingency plans to cancel the Olympics, reporters gave him a resounding “two” answer.
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