In Japan, they are worried about the new coronavirus before the Olympics

Professor Koji Wada of Tokyo University of Public Health is not hopeful that a new coronavirus vaccine will be developed soon. At the same time, he hopes the Olympics will be held as planned. Health authorities in Japan hope that by the start of the tournament, medicine will know a lot more about the new global threat to the population so that safeguards can be taken for all contestants and game guests.

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Diseases such as rubella, measles, and others have posed serious public health risks in the past, but vaccines have been developed against them. The new coronavirus is completely unknown to scientists, its spread is very fast and dozens of people have already lost their lives. Two of the three Japanese evacuated from China were infected with the new virus, but they showed no symptoms.
The virus that Zika mosquitoes transmitted threatened the start of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In 2010, the Vancouver Games were overshadowed by the H1N1 swine flu pandemic.

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