Welp, this is bad ...
The COVID pandemic is hitting Japan so hard, IOC president Thomas Bach has canceled a trip to the country ... leaving many wondering if the Olympic Games will actually happen in July as planned.
After a surge in cases in major cities, including Tokyo, the Japanese government extended a state of the emergency from May 11 to May 31 ... which leaves less than 2 months before Games are scheduled to begin on July 23.
Health officials in Japan are concerned the current 4th wave of the infection contains a variant that is spreading very fast and impacting a relatively large number of young people.