A top Japanese virologist and government adviser has warned of the risks of spreading COVID-19 infections during the Tokyo Olympics, the Times of London reported on Tuesday.
Tohoku University professor Hiroshi Oshitani was an architect of Japan's "Three Cs" approach to the pandemic, which advises avoiding closed spaces, crowds and close contact situations.
"The government and the organizing committee, including the IOC (International Olympic Committee), keep saying they're holding a safe Olympics. But everybody knows there is a risk. It's 100 per cent impossible to have an Olympics with zero risk" the Times quoted Oshitani as telling the newspaper.