WHO: Japan Doing its Best to Control COVID During Games

The WHO said Friday that Japan was doing its best to minimize the risk of Covid-19 spreading during the Tokyo Olympics but stressed there was no such thing as zero risk.

The World Health Organization's warning came as Japan extended a virus state of emergency in Tokyo and expanded the measure to four more regions as it battles a record surge in infections a week into the pandemic-postponed Games. "There is no zero risk. There could be less or more risk. And then, for things to happen with low risk, you try your best," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference from the UN health agency's Geneva headquarters. Japan and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) "did their best to minimise risk, because nobody should expect zero risk", he said.