Japan records highest COVID-19 daily case number, a foreseeable disaster
As the Tokyo Summer Olympics games proceed into their second week, COVID-19 cases are increasing at a much faster rate than predicted in this huge and densely populated city of over 38 million.
On July 29, there were 3,854 new cases in Tokyo, the highest daily infection case count recorded there so far.
Daily cases are expected to exceed 5,000 in less than two weeks.
Despite widespread opposition, the Japanese government refused to cancel the Olympics in the face of a global pandemic and the emerging highly-contagious Delta variant.
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At least $15.4 billion was spent on the Olympics by Japan, $4 billion in broadcast revenue is expected and billions more in advertising.
The media and entertainment bosses, and the governments which back them, fully aware of the potential consequences, calculated these revenues to be worth the cost in human life and lifelong complications as hospitals overflow.
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