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IOC's Thomas Bach cancels Japan trip because of virus cases

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TOKYO – IOC President Thomas Bach has canceled a trip to Japan because of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country, the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Monday in a statement.

Bach was to visit Hiroshima next Monday and meet the torch relay and then probably travel to Tokyo. Organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto said last week that the trip would be “tough” for Bach to make, which was interpreted in Japan as meaning it was canceled.

The trip was made impossible because of a state of emergency in Tokyo and other parts of the country that has been extended until May 31.

The state of emergency was to have ended on Tuesday. The statement said Bach’s visit would be made “as soon a possible.” The postponement is an embarrassment

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