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A group of Cook Islands Olympic team members are waiting to find out when they can return home, following the latest outbreak of Covid-19 in New Zealand.
Kirsten Fisher-Marsters, Wesley Roberts and Jane Nicholas in Tokyo.
Photo: Facebook/Cook Islands Canoeing Association
The Cooks are Covid-19 free but life in Japan is very different, with infections on the rise in the capital.
Spectators have been barred from attending events after Tokyo declared a state of emergency which will run throughout the Olympic Games.
Cook Islands Chef de Mission John Paul Wilson said the team s physio did not travel to Japan because he declined to be vaccinated, but the delegation on the ground have all received two doses.
But wearing masks, he admitted, has taken some getting used to for the Rarotonga-based members of their team.
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