菅首相「安全安心な大会」へ決意　コロナ、テロ対策に万全―東京五輪

　政府は１６日、東京五輪・パラリンピック競技大会推進本部の会合を首相官邸で開いた。本部長を務める菅義偉首相は、新型コロナウイルスの緊急事態宣言下での開催に触れた上で、「国民の命と健康を守るために感染対策を徹底し、安全安心の大会を実現していく」と表明した。
　首相は会場周辺のドローンの飛行停止や鉄道でのテロ対策、サイバーセキュリティー対策の徹底に言及。「テレワークの推進、交通規制などによる都内の交通量の削減などに取り組んでほしい」と事業者らに呼び掛けた。
　また、１５日に成田空港で来日する選手らの動線などを視察したことを踏まえ、「海外から入国する選手や大会関係者について、検査や行動管理を徹底して、組織委員会や東京都と連携して万全な対応を行っていく」と述べた。首相は「最後まで高い緊張感を持って取り組んでほしい」とも語った。（2021/07/16-12:09）

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday pledged to ensure the safety of the Tokyo Olympics, which will be held under a coronavirus state of emergency in the Japanese capital.
   "We'll hold the Olympics safely and securely by taking full-scale measures to protect people's lives and health from the virus," Suga told a meeting of the government's task force for promoting the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. The novel coronavirus state of emergency, the fourth of its kind in Japan, went into effect on Monday in Tokyo.
   Suga, who heads the task force, asked businesses and others to cooperate in reducing traffic volume in Tokyo during the Olympics through measures including remote work and road traffic control. He stressed that the government is taking thorough measures to prevent terror attacks on railway systems and cyberattacks while imposing a ban on drone flights around Olympic event venues.
   Thorough coronavirus tests will be conducted on foreign athletes, staff members and others who visit Japan for the Games, and their movements will be managed strictly, Suga said, pledging to take every response in cooperation with the Tokyo Games organizing committee and the Tokyo metropolitan government.
   "I want everyone to continue working with a sense of tension until the end of the Olympic Games," Suga said.