The World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 at the end of the Tokyo Olympics.
The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics began today after a delay a year ago due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Japan linked to the Games is now 79, reports NAN.
The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, advised the public not to ignore that the Covid-19 pandemic is still ravaging the world and that an event like this could be a great spread.
“By the time the Olympic flame is extinguished on August 8, more than 100,000 people will perish,” Tedros said in Tokyo on Wednesday.
He warned that “the pandemic is a test and the world is failing.
The WHO chief stressed that anyone who thinks the coronavirus pandemic is over is living in a “fool’s paradise.”
There has been an increase in COVID-19 cases continuing in Japan. Tokyo on Wednesday reported its biggest daily increase in new infections since mid-January.
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