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AfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong> Organisers of the Tokyo Olympics will spend $900 million (Sh 99 billion) on measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus at next year\u2019s Games, they said on Tuesday, as they unveiled their latest budget for the delayed tournament.<\/p>\n

The organisers repeated their projection that the total cost of the postponement, including the COVID-19 countermeasures, would come to about $2.8 billion, bringing the entire cost of holding the Games to about $15.4 billion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to build the best possible system by continuing to interact with the relevant organisations of doctors and nurses,\u201d Tokyo Olympics chief executive Toshiro Muto told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still a big issue for us to secure as many medical staff as we hope for when faced with a situation where private medical institutions are struggling with management because of the coronavirus,\u201d Muto said.<\/p>\n

The organisers took the unprecedented step of postponing the Olympics in March because of the pandemic and the government of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, who has declared he will host the Olympics \u201cat any cost\u201d, is pressing ahead with the preparations.<\/p>\n

The Games are the legacy of the ex-premier Shinzo Abe who resigned in September. Under his watch, Japan secured the Olympics and invested billions of dollars in their organisation, having gathered more than $3 billion in domestic sponsorship.<\/p>\n

Even before the postponement, the Olympics had gone above the initial budget with almost $13 billion already spent, according to the organisers.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 countermeasures will include PCR testing infrastructure, setting up a clinic, as well as creating remote coverage set-ups and countermeasures at food and drink processing centres, the budget summary showed.<\/p>\n

Some of the extra costs would be covered by additional sponsorship and insurance, organisers said this month. They would also tap a contingency fund detailed in last year\u2019s budget to cover some costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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