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Virus vaccine key for Olympics go-ahead in 2021

Visitors wearing protective face masks at the Olympic rings. [Reuters]

The development of a coronavirus vaccine or treatment will be key to allowing the postponed Tokyo 2020 games to open in a year’s time, organising committee president Yoshiro Mori said yesterday.

Asked what factors will be crucial for the rescheduled Games to go ahead, Mori said “it would be whether the coronavirus woe is settling down.”

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