Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a speech to the Parliament on the 29th that if the new coronavirus epidemic cannot be effectively controlled next year, the postponed Olympic Games will be difficult to hold.
Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, April 29 (Reporter Prince Jiang) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a speech in Parliament on the 29th that if the new coronavirus epidemic cannot be effectively controlled by next year, the postponed Olympic Games will be difficult to hold.
This statement undoubtedly adds another fire to the “cancellation theory” of Tokyo Olympic Games, which has been continuously spreading recently. Yoshiro Mori, chairman of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee and several Japanese medical experts have expressed similar views recently.
“The Olympic Games must be a sign that the world has won the war against the epidemic.” He said, “otherwise, it will be difficult to hold the Olympic Games.”
When Mori Yoshiro, the former prime minister of Japan, was asked recently whether the Olympic Games would be postponed again because the epidemic was not over, he clearly replied, “No, it will be canceled directly by then.”
The President of the Japanese medical association, yokogura Yiwu, also said the day before that if the world could not find a vaccine against the new coronavirus next year, it would be difficult for the Olympic Games to be held as scheduled. He said: “Even if the Japanese epidemic is under control before next summer, we must also consider the situation of other countries. If the virus still spreads on other continents, the Olympic Games will be difficult to hold.” He hopes that the world will step up research on vaccines.
Last week, Iwata Itou Kentaro, a professor of medical research at Kobe University in Japan, said bluntly at an online press conference: “To be honest, I don’t think the Olympic Games will be held as scheduled next year. Two conditions are needed to host the Olympic Games. First, Japan controls the development of the epidemic; Second, the epidemic must be controlled in all parts of the world.”
Iwata also said: “I am very pessimistic about the Olympic Games next summer, unless the Olympic Games can be held in a completely different structure, such as canceling the audience’s admission, or scale down the competition scale on a large scale.”
Japanese medical experts basically predicted the direction of the Olympic Games after the outbreak of the epidemic. As early as February, when the Japanese government and all personnel of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee promised that the Olympic Games would be held as scheduled, the former director of the Western Pacific region of the World Health Organization, japanese medical expert Taichi Mao said publicly at the press conference of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs: “It is too early to talk about the Olympic Games.” As a result, more than a month later, the Olympic Games were forced to be postponed.