TOKYO—Japan’s Fukushima prefecture will bar spectators from the Olympic events it hosts this summer due to rising COVID-19 infections, its governor said on Saturday, reversing a position announced two days earlier by organizers.
Organizers on Thursday said there would be no spectators in host city Tokyo as a resurgent coronavirus forced Japan to declare a state of emergency in the capital that will run throughout the Games, which were already postponed due to the pandemic.
But they said some spectators would be allowed in Fukushima and several other prefectures outside the capital. On Friday Olympics organizers said soccer matches in Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkai…
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