There are a number of cases in various places where people involved in host towns, who hold pre-camps for the Tokyo Olympics, are infected with the new coronavirus.
Under these circumstances, the Australian representative of softball, who has been training in advance in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture for a month and a half, has thoroughly implemented the "bubble method" to limit contact with the outside, and infections of players and related parties have been confirmed so far. Not.
After the postponement of the Tokyo Games, the Australian softball team, the earliest overseas team to come to Japan on June 1, has been practicing for about a month and a half at the stadium in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture.
Ota City has created a manual based on national guidelines, and at hotels where athletes and staff stay, the floors are reserved for accommodation, and the floors for meals and training are limited, eliminating opportunities for contact with general guests. I did.
In addition, when going out from the hotel to the stadium, we will limit the use of a dedicated bus, and we will require eight drivers to perform a PCR test two days before the flight, and after confirming a negative result, we will ask them to work.
City officials and hotel employees who come into contact with athletes other than drivers carry out PCR tests every day to ensure that the new coronavirus is not brought into the "bubble" in which athletes live.
As a result of these measures, no infection has been confirmed so far for athletes and related parties.
Masayoshi Shimizu, the mayor of Ota City, said, "It is important for us on the receiving side to be careful not to infect the players, and I think it is going well so far."