Coronavirus: Tokyo Olympics at risk unless COVID-19 vaccine can be found, expert says

The Tokyo Olympics will not be able to take place next summer unless a COVID-19 vaccine is found, a leading Japanese vaccine researcher has told Sky News. Professor Yoshiharu Matsuura, from the Research Foundation for Microbial Disease of Osaka University, told Sky News: 'In Japan, the government is putting a large emphasis on vaccine development and a medicine for the virus because of the Olympics. 'They want to push ahead with the Olympics next year and they are saying the only way for that to happen is the vaccine.'