Tokyo 2020 Olympics President says no plan to wear mask - media


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  • Friday, 21 Feb 2020

FILE PHOTO: President of the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, Yoshiro Mori delivers a speech in front of Tokyo Station, Japan July 24, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo 2020 Olympics President Yoshiro Mori said he did not intend to wear masks, despite the coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people in China, a Japanese sports newspaper reported on Friday.

"I pray to God every day that the coronavirus will just vanish," Mori, a former Japanese prime minister, was quoted by the Sponichi Annex paper as saying.

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