The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, an official partner of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, today called in an article for the sports event this summer to be cancelled. According to the newspaper, the risks to public safety and the pressure that the Games are placing on health care due to the coronapandemic are too great.
The Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, an official partner of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, today called in an article for the sports event this summer to be cancelled. According to the newspaper, the risks to public safety and the pressure that the Games are placing on health care due to the coronapandemic are too great.
"We ask Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to calmly and objectively assess the situation and decide not to hold the event for this summer," reads the article with the headline 'Decision to cancel'. Wednesday morning (local time), the headline of the article had been tweeted more than 21,000 times.
Source: HLN