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Security guards would be stationed around venues monitoring behaviour, the report said, with public viewing venues cancelled or scaled down. Japan's vaccine rollout has been moving slowly, with less than 2.5 percent of the population fully vaccinated so far.
A board of Tokyo 2020 Olympics Games is displayed on the wall of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building in Tokyo. Pic/AFP
Tokyo and other parts of the country are under a virus state of emergency which was extended on Friday until June 20, just over a month before the opening ceremony on July 23. The Yomiuri also published a new poll on Monday that shows 49 per cent of people living in Tokyo want the Games to go ahead, while 48 per cent want them cancelled. A total of 25 per cent said they wanted the Games to go ahead with a limited number of spectators, while 24 per cent said they wanted them to be held with no fans. A new country-wide poll by the Nikkei newspaper found that 62 per cent of respondents wanted the Games to be cancelled or postponed again, while 34 per cent were in favour of them being held this summer. Organisers have repeatedly ruled out the Games being postponed again.
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