International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach will travel to Tokyo again to attend the opening ceremony of the Paralympics, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter said Wednesday.
Specifically, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will provide financial assistance to prefectural governments to help them conduct disaster training programs targeting managers and senior staff workers of special and group homes for elderly people.
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will begin with the Opening Ceremony on August 24and ends on September 5.
Many people have voiced support for a decision made Monday to hold the Tokyo Paralympics with no live spectators in principle at all venues amid the rapid resurgence of the novel coronavirus in Japan.
The organisers said about 100 staff will provide repair and maintenance services at the centre as well as in booths at 14 competition venues. Services will include tyre replacements and welding repairs on wheelchairs.
The musician Keigo Oyamada has been removed from the line-up at the prestigious music festival ‘Fuji Rock’.
The Tokyo Paralympics will be held without spectators at all venues due to an alarming rise in coronavirus infections in the host city and many other parts of Japan, officials familiar with the planning said Monday, about a week before the opening of the games.
The musician Keigo Oyamada has been removed from the line-up at the prestigious music festival ‘Fuji Rock’.
Eight new infection cases related to the Tokyo Paralympics were reported Sunday, none of which were athletes, the organizers said.
The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to provide shuttle buses to ferry groups of schoolchildren to Tokyo Paralympics…By supplying an alternative to public transportation, the government aims to assuage concerns about the risk of infection with the novel coronavirus that have been raised by parents and municipalities over the school-viewing program planned for the Paralympic Games
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