June 19, 2021 9:06 PM

Tokyo Governor cancels all public viewing sites for summer Olympics; some to be COVID-19 vaccinations centres

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike today cancelled all public viewing sites for the summer Olympics, diverting some venues to be COVID-19 vaccinations centres instead.   Foreign spectators are banned from attending the Games, delayed by a year due to the pandemic.   However, the government and Tokyo 2020 organisers have for months held off on deciding whether to allow Japanese spectators into the stadiums.   Koike said that these are necessary measures, when looking from various perspectives, for a suc...