The South African Football Association announced on the 18th that there were three confirmed cases of Corona 19 from the South African national football team that entered the Tokyo Olympic Athletes' Village in Japan.



According to the South African Football Association, the South African soccer team arrived in Tokyo on the night of the 14th and received a screening test, and all of them tested negative and entered the athletes' village.



However, the next day, on the evening of the 15th, an image analyst of the South African soccer team tested positive for COVID-19 and was isolated, followed by two players who tested positive the day before and yesterday.



The South African national football team is currently in quarantine.



South Africa's national football team, along with Japan, France and Mexico, will be in Group A and will play the first group match against Japan on the 22nd.



The opening of the Tokyo Olympics is only five days away on the 23rd, and in the meantime, the first confirmed case was confirmed in the Olympic Village on the 17th, followed by two athletes on the 18th.



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