Japan sticks to Olympia 2020 in Tokyo

Japan plans to host the Summer Olympics as planned. The head of the Japanese Olympic Committee, Yoshiro Mori, confirmed at a meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Tokyo on Thursday that the planning for the games would not be affected by the new lung disease Covid-19. "I want to make it clear once again that canceling or postponing the Tokyo games was not being considered," said Mori at the start of a two-day preparatory meeting with the IOC. Mori said that they would work with the Japanese government and deal "calmly" with any problems caused by the novel virus. Because of the epidemic, the Formula 1 race in China and the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, ​​the world's largest mobile phone fair, were canceled