TOKYO — The president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee said Friday that a visit to Japan this month by IOC President Thomas Bach seemed unlikely with a state of emergency order being extended by the government to Tokyo and other areas until May 31.

Canceling the trip could be embarrassing for the International Olympic Committee and local organizers who say they can hold a “safe and secure” Olympics in the middle of a pandemic as cases surge in Japan, particularly in Tokyo and Japan’s second-largest metropolis Osaka. The Olympics are to open in only 11 weeks, on July 23, followed by the Paralympics on Aug. 24.

They will involve 15,000 athletes and tens of thousands of others entering Japan, which has reported about 10,500 deaths from COVID-19.

“Frankly speaking, I personally think it would be quite tough for him to come now,” organizing committee President Seiko Hashimoto said at a weekly briefing.

“But the extension of the state of emergency and having him visit during that time will mean that President Bach will be visiting in a quite a difficult time,” Hashimoto said. “I think that would be a very difficult thing for him.”

Bach said recently he hoped to go to Hiroshima to meet the torch relay on May 17-18. But he has said his plans were not finalized.

Coincidentally, powerful IOC member Sebastian Coe is in Tokyo for a track and field test event Sunday at the new $1.4 billion national stadium.