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Six individuals who helped with Japan’s Olympic Torch relay have been recognized with COVID19, bringing the whole variety of members within the occasion who obtained the coronavirus to eight, organizers stated.
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- Last Updated:May 02, 2021, 11:42 IST
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TOKYO: Six individuals who helped with Japan’s Olympic Torch relay have been recognized with COVID-19, bringing the whole variety of members within the occasion who obtained the coronavirus to eight, organizers stated.
The six individuals, who included a person in his 20s and one other man in his 30s, helped on the relay within the southern prefecture of Kagoshima on April 27, Tokyo 2020 stated in an announcement late on Saturday.
All of them assisted with site visitors management and wore masks, with three of them doing so within the metropolis of Amami and the opposite three within the metropolis of Kirishima, stated the organisers.
Earlier final month, two different individuals who helped with the torch relay on the southern island of Shikoku have been recognized with COVID-19, together with a police officer in his 30s who guided site visitors in Kagawa prefecture.
The Tokyo 2020 organisers urged individuals to adjust to COVID-19 tips.
Japanese authorities are decided to guard Games members and an area inhabitants that opinion surveys have proven is essentially against the Olympics as a result of fears the occasion will result in extra COVID-19 infections.
Japan final month declared a COVID-19 state of emergency for the main inhabitants centres of Tokyo and Osaka and two different areas set to final till May 11 to include a fourth wave of infections.
The Games, delayed by a yr due to the pandemic, are scheduled to open on July 23.
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