The Olympic torch was making its way across Japan last week to herald the upcoming Tokyo Games, scheduled to start in late July after being postponed last year due to Covid-19, when it hit a snag: The governor of Hiroshima prefecture, the next destination on the route, announced he was pulling the relay off the streets of his city because of a surge in Covid-19 cases in the country. The governors of Hyogo and Okayama did the same.
It wasn’t the first setback for the torch relay. Earlier this month, eight staffers who worked on the relay contracted Covid-19.
The realities of the pandemic are now crashing up against the Summer Olympics schedule.
Japan is experiencing its worst coronavirus surge since a peak in January, with daily case rates now topping about 6,000. The Japanese government recently extended a state of emergency in the games’ host city of Tokyo and a few other prefectures through the end of May.
A successful inoculation effort was widely seen as an important benchmark for Japan’s hosting of the games, but so far only a little more than 1 percent of Japan’s population is fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Outside of Japan, global Covid-19 cases are still near all-time highs, with places like India in the middle of catastrophic surges. And vaccination access is far from equal among the countries participating in the competition.
Japan and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have promised “safe and secure” games, with stringent health protocols. Foreign fans are banned from attending the Tokyo games, but the event will still draw some 15,000 athletes, along with thousands of coaches, trainers, support personnel, and members of the media. A decision on whether local spectators will be allowed isn’t expected until June, but the event will still require thousands and thousands of staff and volunteers.
And without foreign fans, some of the economic benefits for Japan are already blunted, which is why more and more people in Japan are questioning the need for the games to go on. A recent poll found 60 percent of Japanese people want the games canceled.
Protesters carry placards as they demonstrate against the Tokyo Olympics in front of the New National Stadium in Tokyo on May 9. Cezary Kowalski/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images
“I don’t know if the international prestige of holding the Olympics is worth it for a potential domestic public health event,” Timothy Mackey, an associate adjunct professor in the global health program at University of California San Diego, said of the Japanese decision to go forward with the games. “So why risk it now?”
At the same time, Japan has a lot riding on these games — particularly Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide, whose ability to host the Olympics is seen as a political test of his handling of the pandemic. And this is really the last chance to host the 2020 games; there will be no postponing it another year.
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Kenya strongly complained about Rugby Africa's decision to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup Africa qualifier in France next year.
The Rugby Africa Executive Committee has selected France, statement on the Rugby Africa website states through a voting process to hold the qualifiers in July.
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The statement states that applications have been sent to all African affiliates of the World Rugby Union and France.The precise criteria for evaluating the offer, the statement stated that the Rugby Africa Committee assessed the submitted materials.
This allows the Rugby Africa Executive Committee to select the host country for the 2022 African Rugby Cup.Rugby director Thomas Odundo Kenya Rugby Union said: he was disheartened by the way this process was handled as African countries refused to host their own qualifiers.Odundo said the union has made an offer after successfully hosting several championships this year.These events include the Rugby Africa Butters Cup Under-20 Rugby World Cup, Rugby Africa World Cup Qualifiers, African Rugby Women's Cup, and 2022 Women's Rugby World Cup Repechege Qualifiers.
Kenya will face Uganda in the knockout round that starts in the quarterfinals.The winners will advance to the semi-finals, where they will face either Senegal or Algeria, the latter of whom will play a quarter-final.Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso will separate in another quarter-final and the winner will play against Zimbabwe or Cote dÍvoire in the semi-final.Kenya, Madagascar, and Senegal competed in the Barthes Cup which was held from June 26 to July 11.
A lack of formal agreement meant there was uncertainty regarding the status of prospective EU students studying in the UK, including fees they would have to pay and what visas they would need afterwards to remain in the UK.
In March 2020, the UK government enforced a national lockdown to curb the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Increase in overall applications to UK universities The 2020/21 year saw a marked 13.5% drop in EU student applications, which was somewhat surprising as it was the last year that students from the European Union would be eligible for home fee status, where they would pay lower fees.
According to UCAS, by the January 2021 deadline for applications, the number of EU applicants stood at 26,010 which is down from 43,030 the previous year.
There were 130,000 university applications from Chinese students, who are over 2.2 times more likely to live in purpose-built student accommodation than domestic students.
Student accommodation occupation Occupation dipped slightly in the 2020/21 year due to lockdown restrictions and people either forced to move out of their accommodation or postponing their studies.
