The International Olympic Committee and the 2020 Tokyo Organizing Committee announced in a joint statement on Tuesday that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed until 2021 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The IOC announced on Sunday that it would take the next month to examine every possibility to stage the Olympics (besides outright cancellation), but following a conference call with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, IOC president Thomas Bach, and other high-ranking officials, the decision was made to postpone.
The unprecedented and unpredictable spread of the outbreak has seen the situation in the rest of the world deteriorating.