Tokyo 2020, first case of Covid in the Olympic village

One person tested positive for Covid in the Tokyo Olympic Village. The news confirmed by the organizing committee of the Games comes six days before the start of the Olympics. He is a foreign citizen, not an athlete – they said according to the NHK – and it is believed to be the first case. The data confirmed yesterday by the Japanese authorities spoke of more than 3,400 cases of Covid-19 ascertained in 24 hours, 1,271 of which in the Tokyo area, which – according to Kyodo – for the third consecutive day recorded more than a thousand cases in Despite the news reported by the NHK, by Toshiru Muto, head of the organizing committee, no details have arrived regarding the person who tested positive or about his nationality or whether he is a person vaccinated or not against Covid. All measures have been taken to avoid the spread of the infection so that everyone in the Olympic village can feel safe, he said.