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Team are in isolation after being in close contact with positive cases. rupert wingfield hayes has the latest from tokyo. this is not the news that the international olympic committee or the japanese olympic organisers wanted. i think there is a certain inevitability to it, though, with 60,000 people coming into japan. there were bound to be some cases of covid amongst those athletes and journalists in teams and officials and so it is. we understand, in all, 58 people have actually tested positive inside the olympic bubble. most of those are not athletes but a small number of athletes also testing positive now. and this really is making life for some teams very difficult particularly the south african team and we know now that team gb has also been affected, though no positive cases. it is just a close contact on the flight over. eight members of team gb are also self isolating and that is disrupting their ability to
Medical staff who were fully vaccinated with sinovac got covid. the government is also considering a cap on the number of locally produced vaccines it sends overseas, a move that could disrupt supply to its regional neighbours like indonesia and malaysia which are also battling a surge in infections. courtney bembridge, bbc news. the tokyo olympics get under way this week as you know but there s already a growing number of athletes and officials testing covid positive, or being forced to self isolate. in the olympic village, two players and a coach for the south africa men s football team have the virus. eight members of team gb athletics team are also in isolation after being in close contact with positive cases. rupert wingfield hayes has the latest from tokyo. this is not the news that the international olympic committee or the japanese olympic organisers wanted. i think there is a certain inevitability to it, though, with 60,000 people coming into japan, there were bound to be