The Paralympics in Tokyo were inaugurated on Tuesday and since then it has been affected by a dozen cases of covid-19.
Now the first person has also been hospitalized with the virus.
That, according to Kyodo News, citing the Paralympics Organizing Committee.
In the Paralympics village itself, three cases have been reported, but if you include all the people connected to the championship, that number is 26.
It is now being investigated whether it is a cluster infection.
Masa Takaya, spokesperson for Tokyo 2020, says that the results will now be passed on to specialists.
- Whether there is a cluster or not is up to the experts to decide.
We will continue to listen to advice and try to provide accurate information to the media.
The spread of covid-19 has increased in Japan during the summer and on Sunday the country registered 22,302 positive cases.