https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Tokyo-2020-Olympics/Olympics-latest-10-000-volunteers-have-quit-Tokyo-2020... The Japanese city of Kurume has pulled out of hosting Kenya's pre-Olympics training camp as local COVID-19 infections spread rapidly, Kenya's Olympic committee says. Facilities for training camps have become vaccination venues, the Kenyan statement quotes Kurume authorities as saying, though Japan has provided no immediate confirmation....
...The Tokyo Metropolitan government formally announces it will scrap a plan to hold public viewing of the Olympics in the city's Yoyogi Park. Instead, police and firefighters will be vaccinated in the park from next month....
...Shigeru Omi, head of the government's coronavirus advisory panel, calls on organizers to strengthen control systems and downsize the games.
"Holding the games under the pandemic is usually unthinkable," Omi tells parliament....