Tokyo Olympics face another looming headache - no medical staff


  • World
  • Wednesday, 03 Feb 2021

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an advertising of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games that have been postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan January 22, 2021. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese doctors and nurses fighting the novel coronavirus will not have the time to volunteer to help at the Olympics, a medical association has said, raising another headache for organisers determined to hold the postponed Games.

The director of the Tokyo Medical Association, which represents 20,000 doctors from dozens of smaller medical groups, said doctors and nurses were under too much strain dealing with a third wave of the pandemic to even consider signing up for the Olympics.

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