Published on : 22/06/2021 – 16:39
A first part of the Ugandan delegation, which arrived on June 19, 2021 in Tokyo for the Olympics, was placed in quarantine after a positive case of Covid-19, announced the Japanese authorities on June 22. This is the first positive case concerning a participant in the Olympics (July 23-August 8) when the Australian softball team was the first foreign delegation to arrive in Japan on June 1.
This is unlikely to reassure the Japanese who are still reluctant to hold the Olympic Games in Tokyo from July 23 to August 8. As delegations begin to trickle into Japan, one has been placed in quarantine after a first positive case of Covid-19. This is the Ugandan team, which disembarked at Narita airport on June 19.
In quarantine until July 3
It was finally isolated, Japanese local authorities announced on June 21. The eight members of the Ugandan team, who accompanied a coach who tested positive when he got off the plane on Saturday, were declared contact cases and will be placed in quarantine until July 3, they told AFP.
The other eight members first traveled by bus to their host city of Izumisano on Sunday in Osaka prefecture in western Japan. ” But our local medical officials interviewed the eight members and determined that they were contact cases of the person who tested positive. An official from the city of Izumisano told AFP. ” We are now asking them to stay in their hotel until July 3 », He added, specifying that the city was going to study the possibility of allowing them to train outside near the hotel.
Ugandan authorities are trying to reassure
On the Ugandan side, we wanted to be reassuring. ” Members of the Ugandan team that left had all received their two vaccines and had undergone two PCR tests in the past 96 hours and returned negative results », Tweeted Donald Rukare, boss of the Ugandan Olympic Committee.
For the time being, around 20 Ugandan athletes have secured their place at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, mainly in athletics and boxing.
According to the latest estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO), nearly 71,500 cases have been identified in Uganda and 660 people have died there from Covid-19.
With AFP,
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