



The state of emergency will be in effect throughout the entire duration of the Olympics, which open on July 23 and close on Aug. IOC's Thomas Bach arrives in Tokyo greeted by state of emergency.Money, politics and split opinion in Japan on 'grand gift' of Tokyo Olympics.The state of emergency went into force on Monday and runs through Aug. Organizers and the IOC decided last week to ban fans from all but a handful of outlying venues, a move that came after the Japanese government instituted a state of emergency in Tokyo forced by rising coronavirus cases.
