Two Athletes Test Covid-19 Positive In Tokyo Olympic Village: Report

<p>With less than a week left for the start of the Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo, two athletes have become the first to test Covid-19 positive in the Tokyo Olympic Village, officials confirmed on Sunday, as per news agency AFP.<br /><br />The news of two athletes testing Covid-19 positive comes a day after an unidentified person became the first person to test positive for Coronavirus in the Tokyo Olympic Village, which will house thousands of competitors.</p> <p>After testing positive for the dreaded virus, both athletes have been kept in isolation. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the organizers of the Games announced on July 8 that no spectators would be allowed to enter the athlete venues located in Tokyo and the three surrounding prefectures, due to rising cases of Coronavirus in the Japanese capital Tokyo.</p> <p>Another emergency has been imposed as the situation worsens. A similar decision was made by the Fukushima provincial government for the Azuma Baseball Stadium two days later.</p> <p>&nbsp;International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on Saturday called for the Tokyo Olympic Games to end the growing concern over anti-coronavirus measures after 15 cases of corona infection among foreign athletes related to the Olympic Games were reported in July alone.<br /><br />"From July 1 to Friday, about 15,000 athletes, officials and others related to the Olympics and Paralympics have arrived in Tokyo," Bach told a press conference on Saturday. "Corona test of all these was done, in which only 15 have been found infected. &nbsp;It's a very low rate, it's about 0.1 percent. &nbsp;The infected people were immediately isolated, so they would not pose any risk to the other participants and the people of Japan.'</p>

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