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July 09, 2021
Fans gather for England v Denmark - Boxpark, Croydon, London, Britain - July 7, 2021.
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LONDON - Football s coming home, is the chant of England soccer fans at this year s Euro 2020 tournament, but with it may come Covid-19.
England face Italy on Sunday (July 11) in the final at London s Wembley Stadium, which has already hosted two semi-finals over two days this week with crowds of around 60,000 people.
And while Wednesday s semi-final victory over Denmark was greeted with jubilation, England is facing a new wave of Covid-19 cases, fuelled by a combination of a highly contagious variant and its emergence from a third lockdown.
July 09, 2021 08:08
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the Olympic Games would continue under a coronavirus state of emergency that bans spectators from all Tokyo-based venues. The arenas in surrounding Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba will also be inaccessible to fans. Taking into consideration the impact of the delta strain, and in order to prevent the resurgence of infections from spreading across the country, we need to step up virus prevention measures, Suga noted.
The Olympics run from July 23 to Aug. 8, and the capital s state of emergency is scheduled for July 23 to Aug. 22, lifting before the Paralympic Games open on Aug. 24. Olympic and Tokyo officials said spectator capacity for the Paralympics would depend on future nationwide infection rates. The ban deals a significant blow to Olympic organizers expecting US$800 million in ticket sales, and to the Japanese government, which spent $15.4 billion on the games.
European states scrap social distancing as COVID-19 pandemic surges
The COVID-19 pandemic, driven by the Delta variant, is surging in Europe. New COVID-19 infections across Europe rose by 43 percent over the last week to 548,000, as European governments end social distancing measures. Over 80 percent of the cases were concentrated in Britain (190,294 cases), Russia (168,035) and Spain (89,036), where cases rose 148 percent.
A COVID-19 patient under Ecmo (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) remain unconscious, at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris, Thursday, April 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
In several countries with smaller caseloads, however, infections are spreading even faster, pointing to the danger of a catastrophic rise of COVID-19 cases, despite ongoing vaccination campaigns. Weekly COVID-19 cases quadrupled in Luxembourg to 961, tripled in the Netherlands (to 11,480) and Greece (8,504), and doubled in Denmark (3,208). They rose around 50 percent in France (19,364) and P
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