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Health authorities quarantined two hotels and closed ski schools in the Swiss resort of St Moritz on Monday to try to curb an outbreak of the highly infectious new coronavirus variant.
Japan’s prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has vowed to push ahead with plans to hold the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, despite a surge in coronavirus cases in the host city and growing doubts over the Games’ viability
Speaking in parliament on Monday, Suga said every measure would be taken to ensure the Olympics, due to open on 23 July, would be safe, describing them as “proof of humankind’s victory over the coronavirus”.
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