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Tokyo COVID-19 cases hits six-month high before the Olympic Games

Yahoo Finance’s Anjalee Khemlani on the surge in covid cases in Tokyo ahead of the Olympic Games opening ceremony.

Video Transcript

ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS: A growing number of Olympic athletes have now tested positive for coronavirus amid rising infection rates in Japan, as the Tokyo games get set to begin tomorrow. Our health reporter Anjalee Khemlani here now with more. And I guess, Anjalee, the concern is that these numbers are just going to rise during the games.

ANJALEE KHEMLANI: That's right, Alexis. Experts are worried about what the impact will be on the games. As it stands right now, we know that there have been 75 reported cases of COVID within the Olympics altogether. That includes several athletes. But a majority of the cases are within the administrative staff-- administration and staff.

Then we've also got Tokyo, which, of course, is home of the games and is reporting more than 1,900 cases in a single day. That's close to, but not surpassing, that January 15 high of 2,000 cases in a single day. So a lot of concern there. We know that the officials did take steps to sort of reduce how many people would be moving about in Tokyo proper, with restrictions on restaurants and bars. And the games themselves in Tokyo are not going to have any audience members. There's going to be an empty stadium.

And so that's something that they've done. But experts are really unclear on whether or not that's going to really curb or have as great an impact as needed on curbing the outbreak. Right now, those measures that were put in place earlier on this month are going to expire after the games on August 22. So a lot going on in that space right now. Meanwhile, we know that the concerns, of course, are growing. And we'll have to wait and see whether or not this becomes a spreader event at all. Back to you.

ALEXIS CHRISTOFOROUS: And of course, we are hoping that it does not, and those athletes get a chance to compete. All right, Anjalee Khemlani, thanks for that.

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