By CHIAKI OGIHARA/ Staff Writer
May 7, 2021 at 17:58 JST
Messages posted on the windows of Tachikawa Sogo Hospital read, “Medical capacity reached its limits. Stop the Olympics!” The photo was taken in Tokyo’s Tachikawa on May 6. (Tatsuya Shimada)
For Masaya Takahashi, whose hospital is under strain from COVID-19 patients, the last straw came when he heard the government was calling for doctors and nurses to volunteer for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. [Read More]
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