An anti-Olympics group member holds up a banner during a protest rally, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Tokyo, Japan May 17, 2021. [Reuters, Naoki Ogura]
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, is being held under unprecedented conditions including tight quarantine rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
However, a number of cases have emerged among athletes and other people involved with the Games. Following are the cases, with the latest listed first:
AUG 4: Twenty nine people, including four athletes, tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total Games-linked number since July 1 to 322, Tokyo 2020 organisers said.
Japan s PM says there is no need to suspend Tokyo Olympics despite record number of cases
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Chip Le Grand11:09, Jul 24 2021
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New Zealand have medal hopes both on the road and the track at the Tokyo Olympics.
A Covid-19 adviser to the Japanese government has delivered a scathing assessment of Tokyo 2020’s capacity to withstand a significant outbreak in the Games village, saying Olympics organisers squandered their opportunity to prepare for the worst. Leading virologist Hitoshi Oshitani, a member of the Suga government’s advisory panel on Covid-19, challenged the Tokyo organising committee’s assurances that the Olympic village was safe and said there were “many holes in the playbook” through which the virus could spread.