Tokyo postpones training for Olympics volunteers over virus fears


  • World
  • Saturday, 22 Feb 2020

FILE PHOTO: People pose for photographs with the Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo, Japan, February 17, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

TOKYO (Reuters) - Organisers for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics have postponed training for volunteers because of the spread of the coronavirus in Japan.

Training was scheduled to be held starting Saturday but will be rescheduled, the organising committee said in a statement released late Friday.

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