Tokyo: Authority tends to move the first eight days of Tokyo Leg of Olympic Torch Relay from public roads due to worries about the spread of Coronavirus, Kyodo news agency reported on Tuesday.
Traditional torch relays will reach the capital on July 9, most pass through the outskirts of the outside and islands before being destroyed through the city center from July 17 to the opening ceremony of the match on July 23.
However, with many cities of the host under the quasi-emergency until July 11 and the concern survived around the increase in infection afterwards, Kyodo said officials tended to change the plan for the first half of the Tokyo leg.
The report did not determine the possibility of an alternative to the first eight days.
In other areas where Coronavirus restrictions affect the relay, the organizers have held static events without viewers.
A Metropolitan Tokyo government official said the panel was looking for a problem.
Japan has not suffered an outbreak of the explosive coronavirus seen elsewhere but has just emerged from the wave of the fourth infection.
The decline in the pace of new cases and pick-up in the launch of vaccination encouraged the authorities to facilitate emergencies in Tokyo and eight other prefectures on June 20.
However, with delayed Olympics, experts worried about new increases.
In case in Tokyo and the spread of variants is more transplanted.
The game also faces resistance from most of the public.
“The number of national infections is in a downward trend, settling,” economic minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said at a press conference on Tuesday.
He added, however, that the rate of infection remained “rather high” in the capital of Tokyo and several other regions.
Tokyo recorded 317 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, marking a ninth day in a row in weeks.
Japan has recorded more than 792,600 cases of viruses and more than 14,600 deaths.
More than 20% of the population have at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot.