Japan to consider allowing 20,000 spectators into Sporting Events

Olympic and
Paralympic host country Japan is to consider allowing 20,000 spectators into
sporting events.

The upper limit
for the number of spectators at events could be raised from the current 5,000
to up to 20,000. The increase would be positive news for the organisers of the
Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, postponed to 2021 due to the global
health crisis. A coronavirus countermeasures task force, formed of
officials from the Japanese Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the
Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, are assessing possible scenarios and measures
that could allow the Olympics to run as expected from July 23 to August 8,
2021.The Paralympics is then scheduled to follow from August 24 to September 5.