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Japanese health experts are calling for the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed, citing the country’s inability to contain COVID-19 cases. The 2020 games, which were already delayed from last year, are set to begin this July even while Japanese institutes a “quasi-state of emergency” to beat back a fourth wave of infections.

“Holding Tokyo 2020 for domestic political and economic purposes—ignoring scientific and moral imperatives—is contradictory to Japan’s commitment to global health and human security,” wrote Kazuki Shimizu in the British Medical Journal last week, reports Reuters. “Kyoto University professor Hiroshi Nishiura, an advisor to the government’s pandemic response, urged in a magazine commentary this week that authorities postpone the Olympics one year to allow for more time to vaccinate the public.”