Authorities reported a record-high 4,058 COVID-19 infections on Saturday amid the Tokyo Olympics
“Tokyo is heading toward an explosive spread of infection never experienced before,” the city’s municipal government said. Hospitalizations have doubled in the past month, “and the situation is starting to place a strain on the health care system.” Hospital administrators have expressed particular concern about rising rates of infection among young people.
“There has been a clear trend of a rapid increase in infected people during the Tokyo Olympics, especially in Tokyo,” the Mainichi newspaper wrote Sunday. It accused political leadership of being trapped in a stalemate with the virus. Fans have defied bans on spectators to watch road races and, Sunday, to join a crowd of hundreds on a bridge overlooking the Ariake Urban Sports Park to catch a glimpse of BMX freestyle competitors spinning in the air. More crowds gathered around the Olympic Stadium in the evening, as organizers prepared to hold one of the marquee events of the Games, the men’s 100-metre race.
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