Japan: can we cancel the Olympics? Meanwhile, the USA

In Japan, opposition to the celebration of the Olympic Games is growing every day, postponed last year due to Covid-19. Great entrepreneurs, who in theory should be in favor of these events, are completely against it, also because Japan is now in the midst of the second wave:

For example Masayoshi Son, the owner of Softbank made a series of tweets in which he states that "eighty percent of Japanese do not want games" and that it would be better to postpone everything to the end of the pandemic.

今 、 国民 の 8 割 以上 が 延期 か 中止 を 希望 し て い る オ リ ン ピ ッ ク。 誰 が 何 の 権 利 で 強行 す る の だ ろ う か。

– 孫正義 (@masason) May 22, 2021

Fortunately for the government, the tide is already showing some signs of easing. Tokyo, the site of the upcoming Summer Olympics (which were postponed after the pandemic made the Games virtually impossible last year) reported 340 new cases on Monday, down from 535 the day before, bringing the seven-day average of new cases in the capital at 638, which is 18.7% lower than the previous week. Osaka has meanwhile registered 216 new infections, down from 274 a day ago and the first time in two months that the number of new cases in the prefecture of western Japan has dropped below 300 for two consecutive days. Tokyo, Osaka and seven other prefectures are currently in a state of emergency which has been extended until May 31. Japan has recorded more than 700,000 infections and 12,000 deaths from Covid-19 from the virus.

Meanwhile, the US has issued a warning for Japan banning travel to that country due to the covid-19 threat.

How will athletes with a travel ban go to Japan?

Who knows….

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/giappone-cancelliamo-le-olimpiadi-intanto-gli-usa/ on Mon, 24 May 2021 20:53:47 +0000.