TOKYO - The Tokyo metropolitan government reported 1,979 new daily COVID-19 cases on Thursday, a day before the Olympic ceremony and the highest number since mid-January, as fears grow that the games could become a superspreader event amid the transmission of the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant.
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