Tokyo Olympics to go forward with Covid-19 pandemic (AFP Photo)
The Taekwondo occasion will get underway on Saturday. Her coach Jose Zapata has additionally been quarantined regardless of damaging exams as he was deemed an in depth contact.
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Chilean Taekwondo participant Fernanda Aguirre was on Wednesday dominated out of the Olympics after she examined optimistic for COVID-19 on arriving on the airport right here, her nation’s olympic physique mentioned. “Fernanda Aguirre has examined optimistic for Covid-19 in the exams carried out on her arrival in Japan,” Chile’s National Olympic Committee said in a statement.
Aguirre travelled to Tokyo from Uzbekistan with negative COVID report but tested positive in both the antigen and PCR tests conducted at the airport here, following which she was quarantined at a designated facility. “The athlete is asymptomatic and in good health, but unfortunately she will not be able to compete in this event because the Japanese health authorities impose a quarantine of at least 10 days,” the Chile NOC said.
The Taekwondo occasion will get underway on Saturday. Her coach Jose Zapata has additionally been quarantined regardless of damaging exams as he was deemed an in depth contact.
Aguirre was one of the eight COVID-19 circumstances amongst Games-related personnel revealed by the organising committee on Wednesday. Before Aguirre, 5 athletes, three of them residing on the Games village, had been discovered to be contaminated by the virus however none of them on arrival on the airport. The whole quantity of Games-related COVID-cases have risen to 75 with the addition of eight circumstances on Wednesday. The COVID-hit Olympics will open on Friday and can go on until August 8 with none spectators.
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