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04/02/2021 - 15:30 Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo Olympics committee, hosted a press conference in Tokyo on February 4, 2021, to apologise for his sexist comments Kim Yung-Hoon POOL/AFP 4 min Japan’s gaffe-prone Tokyo Olympics chief apologised on Thursday for making sexist remarks that prompted outrage, but refused to resign and dug a deeper hole when he admitted he didn’t “speak to women much”. Advertising Read more
Yoshiro Mori’s comments, in which he said women speak too much in meetings, are the latest headache for organisers already battling public disquiet about the pandemic-postponed Games.
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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.
FILE PHOTO: A man wears a protective mask amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in front of the giant Olympic rings in Tokyo, Japan, January 13, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon//File Photo
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.
Nurses at a Chiba city hospital treat a COVID-19 patients in a negative-pressure room. (Susumu Imaizumi)
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 organizers 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.
“No matter how I look at it, it’s impossible,” said Satoru Arai, whose association was asked by both the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government last March to secure more than 3,500 medical staff for the event.
By WANG XU in Tokyo | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-28 07:33 Share CLOSE A man walks on the Odaiba waterfront in Tokyo on Tuesday as Olympic rings are seen in the background. KOJI SASAHARA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Japanese lawmakers and the public grilled the government over plans to recruit 10,000 medical personnel for the Summer Olympics as hospitals in Japan come under mounting pressure from a rising number of COVID-19 patients.
Japan s Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto said in a parliamentary session on Tuesday the government is committed to a plan to secure thousands of medical staff for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. We are trying to secure necessary medical staff of around 10,000, on the premise of asking doctors and nurses that each of them work about five days during the Games period, she said.
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