Tokyo: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said on Thursday there was a risk of “zero” participants who infected Japanese citizens with Covid-19, because cases reached a height of six months in the host city.
“The risk for the population of the Olympic Village and the risk of other Japanese people is zero,” Bach said, adding that Olympic athletes and delegates had experienced more than 8,000 Coronavirus tests, producing three positive cases.
These cases have been placed in the insulation and close contact they are also under the quarantine protocol, said Bach at the beginning of the talks with Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto.
More than a week before the opening ceremony of July 23, Tokyo reported 1,308 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday, tally the highest daily since the end of January.
Postponed last year due to Covid-19 pandemic, the summer Olympics have little public support in Japan amid widespread concerns about further deployment of Coronavirus.
Criticism from the plan to hold the Tokyo Olympics – who was postponed by one year because of a pandemic – submitting a petition on Thursday which has collected more than 450,000 signatures this month, reporting Japanese media.
The organizers have imposed an “Bubbles” Olympics to prevent further transmission from Covid-19, but medical experts worry that they may not be quite strict.
COVID-19 EMEREA case The number of infections has emerged among several visited athletes and the people involved with the game.
An Olympic athlete under the 14-day quarantine period has been tested positively in Tokyo, the organizing committee website reported on Thursday, without expressing details about athletes.
Eight members of the Kenyan Women’s Rugby Team, who will hold a training camp in Kurume in Southwest Japan, are classified as contact near passengers on their flights to Tokyo who tested the positive Coronavirus, said a city official.
Eight athletes have been tested negatively on arrival at the airport, the official added, and would stay in accommodation facilities in Tokyo to the match.
Tokyo entered the fourth emergency situation this week in the middle of a rebound in the Covid-19 case which encouraged the game organizer to ban the audience from almost all places.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told Japanese journalists will take a comprehensive step to strengthen the border control of the Coronavirus.
Restrictions around Cauldrongiven emergencies in the host city, the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee said it would make public access to the seafront area of ​​the capital and asked the public to refrain from visiting the Olympic flame platform.
The seafront area, nicknamed the city of Tokyo Waterfront, should display “cool spots, rest areas and dining rooms” and open to spectators and non-ticket holders, according to organizers.
Some sponsorship booths can be operated based on the basis of access during the match, a spokesman for the committee told reporters.
The decision whether to allow public access to the regions during a paralympic match will be taken after the Olympics end, the spokesman said.