State of Emergency Officially Declared in Tokyo 01/07/21
(ATR) Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a state of emergency for the Tokyo metropolitan area on Thursday evening with 197 days to go until the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.
State of emergency announced 197 days until the Opening Ceremony for Tokyo 2020. (ATR)
The anticipated announcement followed the news of another record-breaking number of new coronavirus cases in the capital and across the host country of the delayed Olympiad.
On Thursday Japan reported over 6,000 new cases with Tokyo reporting 2,447, a single-day record – up from 1,591 the previous day - with the hospitals now feeling the strain of the third wave as medical experts had predicted a New Year spike in cases.