The Tokyo Olympics organisers on Thursday (July 29) introduced 24 new COVID-19 circumstances, together with three athletes, the very best one-day figures to date on the Games, even because the organisers insisted that the showpiece shouldn’t be behind the file surge within the host metropolis. The metropolis logged in an all-time excessive of 3865 constructive circumstances on Thursday. Three new deaths had been recorded with 81 sufferers being described as ‘severe cases’.
Reacting promptly, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams stated the Games will not be chargeable for the surge in coronavirus infections in Tokyo, based on public broadcaster NHK. The contemporary additions took the overall quantity of Games-related circumstances to 193.
Authorities are alarmed by the Japanese capital setting an all-time excessive and shutting in on 4000 circumstances, solely a day after crossing the three,000 mark for the primary time. The host metropolis is in a state of emergency with COVID-19 infections at a file excessive.
Out of the 24 constructive circumstances, six are Games-concerned personnel and 15 are contractors, apart from the three athletes. Tokyo had recorded 3177 circumstances on Wednesday, whereas the COVID-19 an infection numbers for the entire nation was an all-time excessive of 9,583, the primary time the determine has topped 9,000.
On Wednesday, 16 Olympics-related circumstances had been reported however none had been athletes and none had been staying within the Games Village. The complete quantity of circumstances within the Games village presently stands at 23.
The organisers had stated 38,484 individuals from overseas had entered Japan for the Games until Monday. Japan has saved its circumstances and deaths decrease than many different international locations, however its seven-day common is growing, based on the nation’s well being ministry.
Meanwhile, the IOC spokesman Adams stated there was nothing to recommend a hyperlink between the Games and the rising figures. “As far as I’m aware there’s not a single case of an infection spreading to the Tokyo population from the athletes or Olympic movement,” he advised reporters right here.
“We have the most tested community probably anywhere… In the world, on top of that you have some of the toughest lockdown restrictions in the athlete’s village,” he added.
The organisers additionally insisted that the Games will not be burdening the town’s medical system. Adams stated solely two individuals related to the Games are in hospital, and half of all these needing care are being taken care of by their very own medical groups.
“Of 310,000 screening tests, the rate of positivity is 0.02 percent,” Adams added.
