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21 new Covid-19 cases reported, no athletes between them

21 new Covid-19 cases reported, no athletes between them
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Tokyo: Twenty-one new Covid-19 cases related to the Olympics were reported by the organizers on Saturday, no athletes, in the midst of infection in the host city.
Of the total new cases, 14 were contractors and seven officials related to seven matches.
Sixteen were Japanese and five from abroad.
None of them lived in the Olympic Village, the organizing committee said.
Cumulative Covid-19 cases related to the game are now established at 241.
On Thursday, 40,558 people from abroad have arrived in Japan to take part in the match, organizers said.
On Friday, the committee has announced 27 new Covid-19 cases related to the Olympics, including three athletes, the highest daily number so far.
The three athletes included US pole vaulter Sam Kendricks, world champion twice, which on Thursday was pulled out of the game after testing the positive virus.
Friday in cases related to games came a day after Tokyo reported more than 3,000 new infections for the fourth day in a row, and a national day count reached 10,000 for the first time.
The International Olympic committee and committee insisted that showing off was not behind a record of rising in the host city.
The authorities are feared by cases soaring in the Japanese capital in an emergency.

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