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GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of COVID-19 was set to be \u201cfar more deadly\u201d, as Japan extended a state of emergency amid growing calls for the Olympics to be scrapped.<\/p>

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\u201cWe\u2019re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far more deadly than the first,\u201d said WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<\/p>\n

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The mood also darkened in Japan where the coronavirus state of emergency took in another three regions just 10 weeks before the Olympics, while campaigners submitted a petition with more than 350,000 signatures calling for the Games to be cancelled.<\/p>

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With Tokyo and other areas already under emergency orders until the end of May, Hiroshima, Okayama and northern Hokkaido, which will host the Olympic marathon, will now join them.<\/p>

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Japanese public opinion is firmly opposed to holding the Games this summer.<\/p>\n

Swiss tennis great Roger Federer said Friday that \u201cwhat the athletes need is a decision: is it happening or isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cI would love to play in the Olympics\u2026 But if that doesn\u2019t happen due to the situation, I would be the first to understand,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The pandemic has killed at least 3,346,813 people worldwide since the virus first emerged in late 2019, according to an AFP tally of official data.<\/p>

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