Tokyo Games are safe despite Corona infection cases: Bach

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. have tried.

Bach said that since July 1, about 15,000 athletes, officials and others related to the Olympics and Paralympics have arrived in Tokyo. Corona test of all these was done, out of which only 15 have been found infected. It’s a very low rate, it’s about 0.1 percent. The infected people were immediately isolated, so they would not pose any risk to the other participants and the people of Japan.

Bach, assuring the Games to be safe, said this shows that anti-corona measures are not only in place, but they are working and will continue to be enforced.

Tokyo Games 2020 CEO Toshiro Muto has confirmed that the first case of corona infection has occurred at the Tokyo 2020 athlete venue. He told that the infected person was found negative in the test done at the airport, but he was found positive in the test conducted at the athlete’s site on Friday. At present he is in isolation in a hotel.

At the same time, to prevent the spread of the corona virus, 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 the corona epidemic in the Japanese capital Tokyo. Another emergency has been imposed due to worsening of the situation.

A similar decision was made by the Fukushima provincial government for the Azuma Baseball Stadium two days later.