First case of Coronavirus at the Tokyo Olympics. A staff member of a nation in the Olympic village was found positive for Covid-19 but the organizers did not want to declare his nationality. There are fears of the avalanche effect and a new cluster: the games immediately start uphill.
The new wave of Covid-19 cases in Tokyo worries doctors so much that some suggest canceling the Olympics, even after competitions have started, if the spread of the infection worsens.
“The health situation is already at the highest alert level in Tokyo, and other infections will only put more pressure on the health system,” said Masataka Inokuchi, vice president of the Tokyo Medical Association, at the latest meeting of the Tokyo metropolitan government. Tokyo’s health facilities are beginning to feel the effects of the tension: the number of hospitalized patients has jumped to more than 2,000 in three weeks from around 1,200 at the end of June. Nobuhiko Okabe, head of the Kawasaki City Institute for Public Health who chairs the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee’s expert group on anti-virus measures, does not rule out drastic measures to protect the system. “If Tokyo ends up in a situation where people who need hospital care cannot be admitted to hospitals, we should consider canceling the Olympics,” he said in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun.
“We don’t have time for the Olympics” if people can’t get the necessary medical treatment.
Meanwhile, India reported 38,079 new coronavirus cases on Saturday in the past 24 hours, bringing the national tally to 31.06 million, according to data from the health ministry.
The death toll increased by 560, bringing the total to 413,091, according to ministry figures.
About 12 people produce 65% of the disinformation about Covid vaccines on social platforms. This was stated by the White House citing the data contained in the Countering Digital Hate report published in March and on the basis of which the association had then asked Facebook and Twitter to close the pages managed by these 12 people.
According to Countering Digital Hate, one of the people who should be kicked out of social media is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the faces of the anti-vax movement. The controversy comes after the leap in new Covid cases in the United States: in the last 24 hours they have almost tripled to 74,018, the highest in three months. On Thursday, the new infections were 27,956. This is what emerges from the data compiled by Bloomberg and John Hopkins University.
But Facebook rejects President Joe Biden’s accusations of misinformation on social media that “it’s killing people” who don’t get vaccinated against Covid-19. “We will not be distracted by accusations that are not supported by the facts,” replies Facebook, indicating instead to favor the disclosure of information that helps save lives and that has been viewed by more than 2 billion people. Twitter instead posted on its platform the message: “As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves around the world, we will continue to do our part to bring out authoritative health information.”
Finally, an initial assessment of an industrial sector arrives from Spain: car manufacturing companies lost 7.6 billion euros in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic which caused a sharp decline in both sales and production. This is what was disclosed in a report presented by the National Association of Automobile and Truck Manufacturers (Anfac). Car manufacturers have invested € 1.9 billion in their Spanish factories, a figure that is at the average of the last five years, despite the decrease of 31 percent compared to 2019. “The closure of the entire value chain for practically two months was reflected in a historical decline in sales and production “, underlined the general manager of Anfac, Jose Lopez-Tafall.
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