With one year to go, experts warn of high-risk Tokyo Olympics amid pandemic


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  • Friday, 10 Jul 2020

FILE PHOTO Passersby wearing protective face masks following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 walk past the Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympics Museum in Tokyo Japan March 30 2020. REUTERSIssei Kato

FILE PHOTO: Passersby wearing protective face masks, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), walk past the Olympic rings in front of the Japan Olympics Museum, in Tokyo, Japan March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato

TOKYO (Reuters) - With just over a year to go until the Tokyo Olympics, medical experts say the event could pose a grave health risk to the Japanese public, predicting that few people will have coronavirus antibodies and that vaccines will not be widely available.

Olympic organisers and the Japanese and Tokyo metropolitan governments are scrambling for steps to prevent the pandemic from derailing the event. But they say concrete plans are unlikely to shape up before the end of this year.

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