Tokyo Olympics 2020: Half dozen cases of Covid-19 found recently
Tokyo Olympics 2020: An athlete from abroad, recently arrived in Japan to participate in the Tokyo Olympics (July 23 to August 8), tested positive for anticovid.
As did five other people who work for the event, organizers announced this Thursday.
Tokyo 2020 has not specified more details about these six covid- positive people. Who underwent tests between Tuesday and Wednesday. And of which four are residents of Japan.
This announcement comes at the same time that local Japanese authorities have reported other incidents related to the health crisis.
At the least eight employees of a Japanese hotel where the team were staying Olympic judo in Brazil. They Tested positive for evidence of the coronavirus, announced Thursday sanitary and responsible local sports.
The tests were carried out before the arrival of the Brazilian delegation, of 30 people, last Saturday. And none of the positives had contact with the South Americans, said those responsible.
A relative of one of the hotel employees also tested positive.
Elsewhere in Japan, in Munakata, southwest, a staff member of the Russian rugby team was hospitalise. After testing positive for the Covid-19 a municipal authority told AFP.
The group remains confined to the hotel and will resume their jobs on Friday. If they test negative for covid, the source added.
And in Kurume (southwest), eight members of the women ‘s team of Rugby Seven of Kenya were declared ” cases of contact”. After the discovery of a positive on the plane that took the African delegation.
The tests carried out on the Kenyans were negative, according to local authorities.
State of urgency in Japan
Tokyo finalizes the preparation for the Olympic Games almost behind closed doors. With strict measures to avoid contagion among athletes, officials and journalists from abroad.
The city registered 1,308 new infections of covid-19 on Thursday, exceeding a thousand cases for the second consecutive day. These figures being the highest since January.
