The World Health Organization (WHO) has anticipated 100,000 Coronavirus passing’s before the finish of the Tokyo Olympics this mid year. The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics was postponed for a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, at last it was kick-started yesterday, Wednesday, July 21.
Around 11,000 competitors from 200 nations are set to show up for the Olympics and the number of cases in Japan connected to the Games presently remains at 79, as per coordinators. Five of them are Olympic Village inhabitants, three of which are competitors. Contenders including US athlete Kara Eaker, ball player Katie Lou Samuelson and tennis star Coco Gauff tried positive for Covid preceding showing up in Tokyo, ending their Olympic dreams in the process.
In any case, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has asked individuals not to fail to remember that the Covid-19 pandemic is as yet tormenting the world and an occasion like this could be a very spreader.
The WHO boss’ remarks come as cases keep on flooding internationally, which includes Japan, where Tokyo on Wednesday revealed its most elevated day by day increment of new infections somewhere in the middle of January.
This is what the WHO boss had to say;
By the time the Olympic flame is extinguished on the 8 of August, more than 100,000 more people will perish. The pandemic is a test, and the world is failing. Anyone who thinks the pandemic is over is living in a ”fools paradise”.