A first case of Covid-19 has been identified in the Olympic village announced Saturday the Tokyo Olympic Games Organizing Committee (TOCOG).
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There is a person in the village.
This is the very first case recorded in the village, and which was detected on arrival,
”confirmed Takaya Masa, spokesperson for TOCOG, without specifying whether it is an athlete or an athlete. a member of the management, nor from which delegation the person comes from.
The Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for July 23 to August 8, have been postponed for a year due to the pandemic, and strict health measures have been put in place in Japan so that the planetary meeting can be held. “
We are doing everything we can to prevent any further development of Covid-19. If we eventually find that there is contamination, we have a plan to respond,
”explained Seiko Hashimoto, president of the organizing committee.
With less than a week to go before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese capital does not have the heart to celebrate this countdown, as local cases of Covid-19 continue to climb and the state of health emergency was put in place last Monday until August 22. The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, however assured Thursday that the anti-Covid measures at the Olympics were working, and that the delegations followed and supported these rules.
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