The Diamond Princess cruise ship, where 219 cases of coronavirus have been found so far, has been quarantined in a Japanese port for days. Now certain eligible passengers have been allowed to leave and complete their isolation period in government housing
Top Olympic official confident Tokyo Summer Games will go ahead despite virus outbreakTokyo's New National Stadium, the main venue for the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, on December 15, 2019. Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images
Advice from the World Health Organization indicates that “there’s no case for any contingency plans of cancelling the Games or moving the Games,” said John Coates, chairman of the Coordination Commission for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad Tokyo. “We continue to monitor particularly the Chinese that will be coming here,” Coates said, adding that “the Chinese team are mostly out of China now – the athletes and officials” for training and qualifying events.
He said that any Chinese athletes or fans coming from China, particularly affected provinces, would have to adhere to any Japanese government protocols.
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