STOP OLYMPICS PETITION

AN ONLINE petition in Japan calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be cancelled has garnered more than 200 000 signatures in the past few days, as public concerns mount over holding the Games in a pandemic. There are three months to go before the start of the summer Olympics. Facing a fourth wave of the pandemic and struggling with a slow vaccination rate, residents in Tokyo were sceptical about whether the Olympics should go ahead, and wary about foreign visitors.