Tokyo: With just 16 days remaining before the opening ceremony, two staff workers at the Tokyo Olympics Athletes’ Village have tested positive for COVID-19, according to reports.
“The pair tested positive last week and further investigations revealed they had been eating in a group with two other village workers — in violation of the organising committee’s own COVID-19 countermeasures,” ABC News reported. However, the other two workers in question have tested negative for the virus.
Previously, an athlete, a Ugandan coach, and one Serbian rowing team member also tested positive for the deadly virus. While the athletes were isolated immediately at a quarantine facility near the airport after found positive on arrival, the coach was found to have the virus when the Ugandan team reached its base city of Izumisano.
The Athletes’ Village is yet to be opened to athletes, and it will take another week for it to be operational. More than 11000 athletes will be staying in the Village which also has a dedicated fever clinic and athletes will be tested every day.
With the International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach is expected to arrive in Tokyo on Thursday, chances are that a meeting to discuss, and probably decide, whether spectators should be allowed to attend the Games will be held. Tokyo recorded 920 cases on Wednesday, the most since May 13.
