パラリンピック観客ありで　丸川五輪相

　丸川珠代五輪担当相は２０日の閣議後記者会見で、８月に開幕する東京パラリンピックについて、新型コロナウイルスの感染対策を続けた上で「状況が許せばぜひ観客を入れて行いたい」と述べた。「学校観戦、子どもたちの観戦が可能になるような環境をつくりたい」とも語った。
　パラリンピックの観客数については、８日に開かれた政府や大会組織委員会などの５者協議で、五輪閉会後に決定することで合意している。（2021/07/20-12:32）

Tamayo Marukawa, Japanese minister for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, said Tuesday she hopes that spectators will be accepted at the Paralympic Games "if the situation allows."
   "We want to create an environment in which schoolchildren will be able watch the Games live," Marukawa told a press conference, adding that measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus will continue to be taken during the Paralympics, slated to be held between Aug. 24 and Sept. 5.
   On July 8, the Japanese government, the Tokyo metropolitan government, the Tokyo Games organizing committee, the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee agreed to decide the number of live spectators at the Paralympics after the Aug. 8 end of the Olympics.
   For the Tokyo Olympics, spectators will be banned at all venues in the Japanese capital and three neighboring prefectures, as well as in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, and the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, due to the prolonged coronavirus epidemic. Fans will be accepted conditionally at venues in Miyagi Prefecture, adjacent to Fukushima, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, and the central prefecture of Shizuoka.