Coronavirus: Tokyo 2020 could be postponed to end of year - Japan's Olympic minister

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Source: BBC

Japan's Olympic minister says the Tokyo 2020 Games could be postponed from the summer until later in the year amid fears over the coronavirus outbreak.

In a response to a question in Japan's parliament, Seiko Hashimoto said Tokyo's contract with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) "calls for the Games to be held within 2020".

She added that "could be interpreted as allowing a postponement".

The Games are due to be held from 24 July to 9 August.

"We are doing all we can to ensure that the Games go ahead as planned," Hashimoto added.

Under the hosting agreement the right to cancel the Games remains with the IOC.

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1. These folks should go back in History

before they do something like that..........

The flu pandemic of 1918, killing 50? Million people got started in the spring, slowed way down in the summer. Everyone thought it was over, and then in the Fall it came back with a horrific vengeance..........

It is estimated that 80% of all soldier's deaths in WWI were from the flu........