The opening of the Nintendo's first theme park, located in Osaka, Japan, has unfortunately been delayed due to the rising cases of coronavirus infection in Japan.
Super Nintendo World opening delayed
The theme park, Super Nintendo World, is modelled on levels of Mario games. It had been due to open on February 4, 2021.
However, Japan has expanded its state of emergency that is expected to last until February 7, 2021, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the them park is based, according to The Verge.
The opening of the theme park is at Universal Studios Japan and it had already been postponed last year due to the height of the pandemic.
But in December 2020, Nintendo posted a video tour of the theme park starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Zelda, Mario and Donkey Kong.
This is not the first theme park that suffered due to the pandemic. The Disneyland theme park in California is preparing to be a massive vaccination center.
The state of emergency in Japan, which has so far prevented any major lockdowns that are seen in the United Kingdom and other European countries, prohibits all non-essential trips outside the home.
On January 12, the total number of cases in Japan reached 300,000 with more than 4,000 deaths. Many of those cases have been recorded in the past three months.
The rising numbers of coronavirus cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics which is scheduled for summer 2021 as its already been postponed last year.
COVID-19 cases in Japan
According to Japan Times, the country has 5,869 confirmed coronavirus cases as of January 13, 2021. This new number bring the total number of cases, including cruise ship passengers and its crew members, a total of 304, 764.
The total of the cases are now rising at an accelerating pace as the numbers topped 300,000 just three weeks after it surpassed 200,000 on December 21, 2020. On January 16, it will mark a year since Japan's first COVID-19 case was confirmed.
The national death toll that was linked to COVID-19 grew by a daily record of 97 to 4,289. The number of ill patients also hit a record of 900, which increased over 19 counts from the day before.
Tokyo reported 1,433 new COVID-19 cases as of January 13 as Japan's cumulative total of coronavirus cases topped 300,000. Among the daily total in Tokyo, 187 cases involved people who were around 65 years old or older while the number of ill patients, based on the standards of the city, was 141, according to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Among the new cases, people who are in their 20s made up the largest group with a total of 394, followed by 275 for people in their 30s and 202 among people in their 40s. The cumulative number of coronavirus infections in the capital stood at around 78,566.
Just last week, the Japanese government issued a new COVID-19 state of emergency for Tokyo and for three neighboring cities: Chiba, Saitama and Kanagawa. On January 12, Kanagawa recorded 906 infection, which is its second-highest daily count.
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Written by Sieeka Khan
