Six days before Tokyo Olympics, first Covid case in Games Village
By Asianet Newsable English | First Published Jul 17, 2021, 10:28 AM ISTThe announcement adds to mounting concerns about infections at the Olympic Games.
Tokyo Olympics organisers on Saturday confirmed the first Covid-19 case in the Olympic Village six days before the Games are scheduled to begin.
Masa Takaya, a spokesman for the Tokyo organising committee, told media persons that one person in the Games Village tested positive during the screening test.
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The person has not been removed from the Games Village, where athletes and staff of participating nations will reside, and isolated in a hotel.
Even though the identity of the person has not yet been revealed, Tokyo Olympics 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto confirmed that the infected person was a foreign visitor involved in organising the Games.
The announcement adds to mounting concerns about infections at the Olympic Games.
The 2020 Olympics, which was postponed for a year due to the global Coronavirus pandemic, will be held without spectators and under tight quarantine rules.
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