The head of the World Health Organization says it won't be easy to make next year's Tokyo Olympics a safe global gathering after the pandemic.
The Summer Games opening ceremony is now due on July 23, 2021, after the International Olympic Committee and organizers in“We hope Tokyo will be a place where humanity will gather with triumph against COVID,” Tedros said at WHO headquarters.
Around 11,000 athletes from more than 200 teams are due to compete at the Tokyo Olympics. Most would be joined by team officials staying in an athletes village complex of 5,600 apartments at Tokyo Bay. “Nobody can at this moment in time really give you a reliable answer on how the world will look like in July 2021,” IOC president Thomas Bach acknowledged.
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