80% of Japan’s public opinion cancellation/replay… Sophisticated quarantine measures are also urgently needed
“Only the first vaccination for Olympic athletes is a practical alternative”
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The Tokyo Summer Olympics and Paralympic Games, which were postponed for a year in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), faced a crisis of aground again. As of the 11th, 193 days before the opening of the tournament, skepticism about hosting the Olympics is spreading in and out of Japan.
In a Japanese public opinion poll released by Kyodo News Agency on the 10th, the Olympic negative public opinion peaked. 35.3% of respondents who participated in the telephone survey chose to cancel the Olympics and 44.8% chose to re-act. Public opinion for cancellation and reenactment recorded 80.1%. This is an increase of more than 17 percentage points from 63% of the cancellation/replay response rate of the NHK poll at the end of last year.
Despite the spread of Corona 19, the result of great disappointment at the Japanese government’s hesitation to declare an emergency situation seems to have been reflected in the negative public opinion of hosting the Olympics. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has announced that he will hold the Tokyo Olympics in a safe and secure manner, but it is unclear whether the promise will be kept as the cabinet approval ratings staggered in response to the rise in the Olympics negative public opinion. In the Kyodo News survey, the Suga cabinet approval rate fell 9 percentage points from last month to 41.3%, and the percentage of respondents saying they did not support recorded 42.8%.
The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee said that if the one-year postponed Olympics do not take place in July this year, there will be no repercussions and will be canceled. For the Olympics to be held normally, thorough quarantine measures must be established in advance. Hosting the Olympics as’no spectators’ is also a consideration. Precise policies regarding wearing masks and making social distancing mandatory, frequent corona 19 testing, and minimizing athletes’ stay at the Olympic Village must first come out. Olympic participants should also be vaccinated before the start of the competition to reduce concerns about the spread of infection.
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Canadian-born Dick Pound, the longest-lived member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), recently sparked skepticism that he cannot guarantee the holding of the Tokyo Olympics. Pound was the first IOC dignitary to insist on canceling or postponing the Olympics last year when the IOC, the Japanese government, and the Tokyo Organizing Committee insisted on holding the Olympic summit despite the spread of Corona 19.
Pound argued that in order for the Olympics to be held as scheduled, it is only a realistic way to vaccinate athletes first. In this regard, Erica We’ve (Canada), a 75kg gold medalist in women’s wrestling at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, said that the elderly, not athletes, the vulnerable, and health officials fighting on the front line of Corona 19 should get the vaccine first. Done.
The UK Sky Sports predicted that the spread of Corona 19 is making it difficult to host the Olympics, and that it may be decided until April.
/ Reporter Park Ye-na [email protected]
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