“As the host city, I’m determined to achieve the Games whatever it takes,” Koike told a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday a week after International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach visited the country.

With efforts of the government to balance preventive measures and continue business activities to recover the pandemic-hit economy, Japan recently reported a steady climb of Covid-19 cases which grew exceeding 2000 nationwide. 

Bach visited Japan wherein he and some Japanese Olympic officials made a series of talks showcasing how the country is making efforts to pull-off the games.

Koike confidently said that widespread usage of masks among the Japanese is one of the preventive measures that spared them from having a high rate of infections just like what happened in the United States and Europe.

Many Japanese used them as a “moral duty” in trying to cooperate in disease prevention efforts, she said.

However, the uptick of infections could call-off Japan being a capable host of the 2020 Olympics games.

Bach stated that “participants” and athletes are encouraged to get vaccinated when they arrive in the country in order to protect the Japanese public, but is ambiguous if the virus spike still continues in the host country.

While Tokyo’s daily cases are also steadily growing, Koike has met with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to talk on how to deal with the recent resurgence of infections.

Meanwhile, after a wave of criticisms from the public aching for government actions and experts’ repeated calls, Suga announced on Sunday that they are partially suspending the government’s GoTo campaign, an effort for pandemic-hit businesses to encourage people to travel and eat with discounts.

Japan, during its seven-week state of emergency in April and May, had non-binding stay-home and business closure requests but still did better than many other countries.

Japan had reported about 134,000 Covid-19 cases with nearly 2,000 deaths as of Monday, according to the health ministry. Tokyo, which previously reported about 500 cases last week, had 186 anew on Tuesday for a total of nearly 38,200 Covid-19 infections.