Tokyo: The Tokyo Olympic match has positive Coronavirus parts before they open, but Brian McCloskey’s health experts say they are expected and lower than those who imagined at this stage.
US tennis player Coco Gauff was tested positive for Covid-19 before his departure.
Another athlete has been tested positive at the airport after arriving in Japan or once in a bubble which is a athlete village.
Read Alsotoky Olympic Organizers announced three Covid cases related to the game, no Athletone Olympics concerned and contractors were included among the three Covid-19 cases detected on Monday by game organizers, the day after three sportsmen, two of which stayed in the athletial village , , Tested positively virus.
“What we saw was what we expected to see,” McCloskey, a leading advisor for the match, told a press conference on Monday.
“We do tests because they are a way to filter (people with Covid-19).” Read the Alsoczech Beach Volleyball Player Positive Test at the Olympic Village Beach Volleyball Player Ondrej Perusik became the third athlete at the Olympic Games Village to test the positive Covid-19, while the training of female gymnast in Chiba Prefecture was also infected on Monday, dealing with fresh sets of blows to the Mega which is open in less than four days.
“We identify them early, bring it apart from others.
Expected.
Every layer of filtering is a risk reduction.
The numbers we see are lower, maybe lower than we expected,” he said.
McCloskey, who led the independent panel of experts who advised the organizers on the Mitigation Steps of Covid-19, said there was no way to 100% convinced that no athletes would be infected but the steps in his place greatly reduced the risk.
Some critics say the game should not advance during a pandemic.
Many Japanese are also worried, the game can be a super-spreader event.
Only four days before the opening ceremony, 68% of respondents in the Asahi newspaper poll expressed doubts about the ability of the Olympic organizers to control Coronavirus infection, with 55% saying they opposed the match continuously.
Asked whether the athlete’s village was safe, McCloskey said: “Yes …
the longer you live in the village the less likely (for people) to test our positive.” McCloskey, who in 2012 was responsible for the preparation of the British health protection agency for the London Olympics, said he did not want to put the figure of how many cases would be a successful game.
“We don’t put the figure on it.
It is impossible to predict.
What we need to do is (ensure) that the amount is as low as possible.
No matter how much the number is, it is important how fast we try to find them,” he said.
Organizers not only need to find those infected but also have to get out of the circulation of all those who have contacted infected individuals and ensures they are isolated and tested before the competition.
He does not rule out contact with infected people potentially leads to the exception of the Olympics but say “all steps in his place ….
will reduce the risk of anyone who spread it.”