People watch the performance of giant puppet 'MOCCO' designed by Noriyuki Sawa during the "Rediscover Tohoku - MOCCO's Journey from Tohoku to Tokyo" media tour at Takata Matsubara Tsunami Reconstruction Memorial Park in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture on May 15, 2021. - AFP
UNITED NATIONS, May 16 (AFP): The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a grim warning that the second year of Covid-19 is set to be "far more deadly", as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped.
WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: "We're on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first."
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