The Games Organizing Committee has announced that one person from overseas who came to Japan to participate in the Tokyo Olympics was newly tested positive for the new coronavirus.
One of the tournament officials who came to Japan from overseas on the 16th, the Organizing Committee, while the team and related parties are coming to Japan in earnest for the Tokyo Olympics, which will start on July 23, a week later. Announced that the new Corona test was positive.
According to the Organizing Committee, one person who was found to be positive was not in the Olympic Village during the 14-day quarantine period, and a test conducted in Tokyo on July 13 confirmed that it was positive. ..
The tournament officials are coaches and staff of the team, IOC = International Olympic Committee, international sports organizations, and tournament sponsors, not athletes, but the Organizing Committee has not disclosed details.
This is the fifth case announced by the Organizing Committee after July 1 that athletes and tournament officials from overseas have tested positive for the new corona, and domestic tournament officials and organizing committee members. The total number of staff members is 30.