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Tokyo warned locals pose greater virus risk to Olympics than visitors

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Tokyo | The biggest COVID-19 danger to the Tokyo Olympics is not the thousands of athletes and officials coming from abroad but whether the event leads to greater mobility and socialising among local people, according to experts studying the event.

Although public anxiety in Japan focuses on the 100,000 athletes, trainers, officials and reporters who have begun to arrive seven weeks before the games, epidemiologists said the greatest risk was a change in public behaviour.

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