By TAKUYA NISHIE/ Staff Writer
June 16, 2021 at 19:05 JST
In this banquet hall planned as a dining area for athletes from Uganda while they stay in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, tables are spaced apart for social distancing and have been outfitted with acrylic panels as precautions against the novel coronavirus on June 9. (Takuya Nishie)
IZUMISANO, Osaka Prefecture--Uganda’s team for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics was supposed to have landed in Japan on June 16, but its flight was canceled following a surge in COVID-19 cases in its home country. [Read More]
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