A man wearing a protective face mask, following the current outbreak of the Covid-19 (coronavirus), walking past a Tokyo Olympics 2020 souvenir shop in Tokyo on Saturday (March 14). Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe repeated twice on Saturday that the Olympic Games will still be held in July and not postponed. - Reuters
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday night (March 14) resisted pressure for changes to the Tokyo Olympics schedule even as sporting events worldwide fall victim to the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak.
Abe pledged Japan would host the Games as planned in July and said he had no immediate intention to declare a state of emergency over the virus outbreak, which has now seen more than 140,000 people infected across the globe and over 5,400 killed.
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