It was discovered that 12 police officers, including 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.
This brings the number of confirmed infections to 35 in the support team dispatched from the region.
A total of 12 people were newly confirmed to be infected, including 11 police officers in their 20s to 40s at the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters and one police officer in their 40s at the Oita Prefectural Police Headquarters, who were dispatched as support units. is.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, 11 of the Hyogo Prefectural Police were guarding at the competition venue in Tokyo, but as a result of being tested earlier this month, some complained of fever, and all were found to be positive. Did.
In response to this, the Metropolitan Police Department is waiting at the facility for a total of about 500 people in the same unit as 11 people.
Up to now, 20 people have been infected with the Hyogo Prefectural Police support unit, but there are cases where some units have management problems, such as not keeping action records that need to be created. about it.
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 35.