It was discovered that two police officers from the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters, who were guarding at the competition venue in Tokyo for the Tokyo Olympics, were newly infected with the new coronavirus.
Eight people have been confirmed infected by the support team dispatched from the region, and 44 police officers suspected of contact are currently waiting at the facility.
Two police officers in their 20s and 30s at the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters, who had been dispatched as support units, were newly confirmed to be infected.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the two were guarding at the same competition venue in Tokyo, but a police officer in his thirties complained of symptoms such as fever on the 24th, and a PCR test revealed that they were positive.
A police officer in his twenties had no subjective symptoms, but when he was tested on the 24th, he was found to be positive.
On the 24th, four people were just announced to be infected with the Hyogo Prefectural Police's support team, but they were all in charge of guarding the same competition venue and stayed at the same police facility in Fuchu City, Tokyo.
At the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, about 12,000 police officers have been dispatched from all over the country as support units, and the number of confirmed infections is now eight.
In addition, 44 police officers of the Hyogo Prefectural Police who are suspected of contact are currently waiting at another facility, but three of them are found to be positive by a simple test, so the Metropolitan Police Department is a support unit We requested again to take thorough infection control measures.