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Head of WHO’s Emergency Programme, Dr Mike Ryan, while welcoming the move, explained that the scheme would allow health authorities to tackle the “broad but related threats” posed by arboviruses in different parts of the world.

Though much of Japan is under a state of emergency due to a third wave of COVID-19 infections, Tokyo organisers have consistently vowed to press ahead with the Games scheduled to open on July 23 after having been postponed in March last year.