Olympic Torch Relay Goes On; Tokyo Seeks Crowd ‘Restraint’

A woman with a suitcase wearing a facemask, amid concerns over the spread of COVID-19, sits at a bus stop in front of a Tokyo 2020 Olympics advertisement in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 16, 2020. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images

Tokyo Olympic organizers are pushing ahead with the Japanese leg of the torch relay despite the threat of the spreading the CCP virus.

The Olympic flame, which is due to arrive on March 20 from Greece, is scheduled to navigate the country for four months from March 26 until the planned opening of the Olympics on July 24 at the national stadium in Tokyo.