Tokyo2020 Games get under way despite Covid-19 fears as WHO chief says the competition was needed as 'a celebration of hope'
Japan's Yukiko Ueno pitches during the softball game between Japan and Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics, July 21, 2021, in Fukushima, Japan.
Rising Covid-19 cases in host city Tokyo have cast a shadow over the world's largest sporting event, which is taking place largely without spectators. Japan this month decided that participants would compete in empty venues to minimise health risks. "May the rays of hope from this land illuminate a new dawn for a healthy, safer and fairer world," he said, holding aloft an Olympic Games torch. "It is my sincere hope the Tokyo Games succeed."But Tedros warned the world was in the early stages of another wave of infections and criticised the vaccine discrepancies between countries.
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