Nigeria, May 8 -- A petition titled 'Cancel the Tokyo Olympics to protect our lives' has almost garnered 300,000 signatures as Tokyo citizens urge the International Olympic Committee to postpone the Games or cancel it outrightly.

The IOC rescheduled the 2020 Games for 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and there are fears that the Games could become a super spreader event, especially with the variant found in India.

The petition was launched by a Tokyo-based lawyer, Kenji Utsunomiya, on Tuesday, May 5 and as of Saturday, May 8 [10:30 am] had garnered 274,762 signatures. According to the AP, "The petition is addressed to International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, who has tentative plans to visit Japan later this month. He...