Plans for six Tokyo sites to livestream Olympics scrapped

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, visits a vaccination centre ((Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)

Plans to have big screens showing the Olympics at six sites in Tokyo have been cancelled as worries grow about the coronavirus pandemic amid one of the slowest vaccine rollouts in the developed world.

“These are necessary measures to make the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics a success,” Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike told reporters after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.