In an enormous reduction for athletes from Malaysia, India and eight different South-East Asian nations, Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee chief govt officer, Toshiro Muto has denied stories that entry of 10 Asian nations will probably be barred from subsequent month’s Olympics resulting from a surge within the Covid-19 instances.
The notion of denying entry was not even mentioned, in keeping with Muto, however contingents from nations which have seen surge in COVID-19 instances are required to be utterly vaccinated earlier than arriving in Japan for the Games, which begin on July 23.
“We have never heard of that, it is completely groundless, we cannot consider it as a possibility,” the Tokyo 2020 boss mentioned.
“There is concern on the new variant from India, for that reason, before they come to Japan, they need to be fully vaccinated. That is the policy we have announced, 100 per cent vaccinations is recommended and required (for athletes) from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and other related countries.
“So they need to consult IOC and they will come vaccinated before making an entry into Japan,” he additional added.
Toshiro Muto has additionally denied that there have been discussions to cancel or additional delay the Olympic and Paralympic Games, already been postponed for a 12 months as a result of Covid-19 pandemic.
It was reported on Tuesday in Malaysia that, the Japanese authorities issued a round to the Olympic organising committee to “deny entry” to athletes from 10 nations experiencing a spike in Covid-19 instances. This has created fairly an uproar within the South-East Asian nation with the delayed quadrennial video games across the nook.
Besides Malaysia and India, the nations named within the report are Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom.
According to their Ministry of Foreign Affairs web site, “For the time being, foreign nationals who have stayed in any of the following 159 countries/regions within 14 days prior to the application for landing are denied to enter Japan in pursuant to the Article 5, paragraph (1), item (xiv) of Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act, unless special exceptional circumstances are found,” it learn.
“Note that foreigners (from the countries and regions where the entry bans do not apply) are not denied to enter Japan even when they arrive in Japan via those countries or regions, which are subject to denial of permission to entry, for refueling or transit purpose,” it further added.
According to the report, if the committee did not deny entry, stricter measures would be imposed, including a 14-day quarantine.
Currently, Japan’s quarantine measures states that, ”From January 8,2021, all those that enter, re-enter or return to Japan (together with Japanese nationals) are additionally topic to conducting of COVID-19 take a look at upon arrival regardless of whether or not arriving from the nations/areas designated as an space topic to denial of permission to enter Japan or not till additional discover. Then they’re required to remain 14 days at a location designated by the quarantine station chief (personal residence and so forth.) and to chorus from utilizing public transportation.”
Even if they are granted entry into Japan, they will be denied the chance to train at the venues. Even if they are under a 14-day quarantine, the athletes can only train inside their hotel rooms, which is of little help when they are competing at Olympic level.
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