(Tokyo Olympics) Olympic-related personnel add 24 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, the most since July
China News Service, Tokyo, July 29 (Reporter Zhu Chenxi) The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee announced on the 29th that there were 24 new confirmed cases of Olympic-related personnel, the most since July 1.
Since July 1, the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has announced daily new confirmed cases of Olympic-related personnel. As of now, the total number of cases has reached 193.
According to data from the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee, of the 24 newly confirmed cases, 3 were athletes who had arrived in Japan to participate in the Olympic Games and had moved into the Olympic Village; 6 were Olympic-related staff and 15 were Olympic outsourcing business staff.
The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee has previously decided that when contestants and related personnel live in the Olympic Village and the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee designated hotels, if the new crown test results are positive, considering privacy and other reasons, their personal information such as nationality, gender and age will not be disclosed .
According to the statistics of the Japan Broadcasting Association TV station, as of 23:59 local time on the 28th, Japan had 9576 new confirmed cases of new crowns that day, a record high since the epidemic, with a total of 892,628 confirmed cases; 8 new deaths on that day and a total of 15,161 deaths.
Data show that the number of newly diagnosed cases in Tokyo exceeded 3000 for the first time on the 28th, with a total of 206,745 confirmed cases; 6 new deaths were added that day, with a total of 2285 deaths.
Due to the rapid spread of delta mutant strains in Japan, Tokyo and nearby Kanagawa, Saitama, and Chiba prefectures and other capital cities have suffered severe epidemics.
Tokyo is already in the state of an emergency declaration, and the three prefectures are currently applying the “key measures to prevent spreading” in the previous phase of the declaration.
The Japanese government is discussing the issuance of an emergency declaration to the three prefectures.
In this regard, Shigeru Omino, head of the Japanese government's new crown epidemic expert group, said on the 29th that if all sectors of society are not aware of the crisis, the spread of the epidemic may be further aggravated.
The International Olympic Committee stated at a press conference on the 29th that the spread of the Tokyo epidemic has no connection with the hosting of the Olympics, and emphasized that the Tokyo Olympics participants have undergone multiple tests and are in isolation from the outside world. The Olympics will not prevent and control the epidemic in Japan. Make an impact.
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