The series of positive Covid-19 cases continues in Tokyo.
After the first three this weekend with the South African football team, it is the turn of beach volleyball and gymnastics to be affected.
Czech volleyball player Ondrej Perusic tested positive on Sunday, during daily tests carried out in the village, announced his head of the delegation.
"Ondrej has absolutely no symptoms," Martin Doktor also added.
We look at everything in detail, and in particular pay attention to the anti-transmission measures within the team ”.
“We waited several hours for the result,” says Chief Medical Officer Jiří Neumann.
When that turned out to be positive, we delivered his stuff.
Organizers then took him to a hotel designed to isolate asymptomatic cases.
We have also provided the organizers with documents, including our Covid passport, which summarizes all the necessary information.
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The 26-year-old player declared himself “exasperated” by this situation, despite the draconian sanitary conditions that he understands very well: “I do not see this as the end of the world or a tragedy.
I am vaccinated and have tried to follow public health measures.
Unfortunately, I must have made a mistake somewhere and got infected.
It is my responsibility above all, ”he then underlined.
A positive case in training camp
The identity of the young American gymnast, diagnosed positive in the training camp of the Americans, was however not communicated: "We can confirm that it is a teenager, substitute in artistic gymnastics, informed the Committee. American Olympic, requested by AFP. In accordance with local regulations and protocol, she was placed in isolation and transferred to a quarantine hotel ”.
She would have, like the player from the Czech Republic, no symptoms.
Another member of the team, including superstar Simone Biles, has been identified as a contact case.
He also remains alone in his room, ”explained Kimiya Kosaku, the head of the city of Inzai where the American training camp is located.
According to Kyodo News agency, the rest of the team moved to the Tokyo Olympic Village on Monday afternoon.
The Games will officially begin this Friday, almost behind closed doors for all events.
According to the official count made public by the organizers on Monday, 58 positive cases of Covid-19 have been detected since July 1, out of nearly 20,000 people (athletes, supervisors, journalists) who have arrived in the country.