The International Olympic Committee announced Monday that it has postponed the start of the Tokyo Olympics to July 23, 2021, and of the Paralympic Games to August 24, 2021, because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The worsening outbreak, along with measures to prevent its spread – such as social distancing, stay-at-home orders and increasingly severe travel restrictions – affected Olympic athletes’ training and made the 339-event spectacle no longer tenable this year in Tokyo, whose metropolitan area is the world’s largest by population.

Since Wednesday 25 March the New Zealand Government moved the Covid-19 alert to Level 4, and MFAT has advised against all overseas travel.

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