The total number of confirmed cases in Japan is currently at 779,500 cases, placing the country 34th in a number of cases globally. The number of daily new cases has sharply declined from a peak of more than 7,000 cases on May 12 to just under 2,000 cases on June 16. GlobalData’s latest Coronavirus Disease 2019 dashboard highlights a downward trend in new Covid-19 case numbers for Japan as it’s coming off its fourth wave of infection since the beginning of the pandemic. Currently, Japan’s Government has extended a state of emergency covering major cities until late June, which has led to further calls to postpone or cancel the Olympic Games. The Olympics were originally scheduled to take place in 2020 but were postponed for a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Some of Japan’s most senior advisers on the Covid-19 pandemic have warned that allowing millions of spectators at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will facilitate the spread of the virus both domestically and internationally.
According to the Tokyo 2020 Playbooks, which were developed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee to ensure that all participants and spectators remain safe and healthy during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, both spectators and athletes should take responsibilities to supply their own face coverings and are advised to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before the Games begin. Another 5,000 athletes will attend the Paralympics, which follows shortly after.
In late July, approximately 11,000 athletes and 4,000 athletic support staff will gather for more than two weeks of competition at various hosting cities. However, this year’s Olympic Games, which are being hosted by Japan, are facing complications due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. When looking at bigger countries, Indonesia won just one gold medal and has a population of more than 273 million people, while India has one medal to show for every 276 million or so people.The Olympic Games are considered to be the world’s most prestigious sports competition, with more than 200 nations participating. The tiny country located inside Italy – with a population of 33,391 – won three medals, therefore averaging one per 11,310 citizens.īermuda’s figure of one every 63,918 doesn’t change, while further down the list was Grenada (112,523 people per medal), Bahamas (196,622 per medal) and New Zealand (241,112 per medal).įrom No.6 to No.10 on the list is Jamaica (329,019 people per medal), Slovenia (415,788), Fiji (448,222), Netherlands (475,969) and Georgia (498,645). When analysing overall medals per person, San Marino wins this category. In second on the list of most successful countries by gold medals is the Bahamas (196,622 per person), followed by New Zealand (688,890), Slovenia (692,979) and Jamaica (740,292), the latter of which won all four gold medals in track and field. While the United States and China have battled it out for supremacy at the top of the overall tally – based on gold medals and overall medals – there is always intrigue surrounding the performances of smaller nations based on their populations.Īccording to Tom Decent of The Sydney Morning Herald, Bermuda and San Marino could lay claim to enjoying the most successful Olympic campaigns at Tokyo 2020 if the barometer of success came down to gold medals and overall medals per population.
Apart from those, Hong Kong has also won seven other medals, three silver, and four bronze.įor the first time in Tokyo Olympics, Hong Kong won a total of 1 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze. Hong Kong won its first medal/gold medal in 1996, and a second gold medal in 2021.
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