Olympics, Covid outbreak in a hotel hosting Brazilian athletes

A coronavirus outbreak has broken out in a hotel in Japan hosting athletes from the Brazilian team. This was reported by the ‘BBC’, specifying that seven staff members of a hotel located in the coastal city of Hamamatsu tested positive. According to the British broadcaster, the infected people have not had contact with the Brazilian team, which also includes judoka. The BBC also reports that South African rugby team members are in solitary confinement after a passenger on their own flight to Japan tested positive. The Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee has meanwhile announced that out of the over 8 thousand people involved in the Games who went to Japan between the first and 13 July, only three tested positive.