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Tokyo Olympics: First COVID-19 case detected in Olympic Village, say reports

| @indiablooms | Jul 17, 2021, at 05:19 pm

Tokyo/UNI/Sputnik: The first case of COVID-19 has been detected in the Olympic village in Tokyo, the NHK broadcaster reported on Saturday, citing the Organizing Committee.

The infected person is a member of one of the foreign delegations.

There is no information about the citizenship and gender of the patient.

The Summer Olympics in Tokyo, originally scheduled to take place in 2020, were postponed for a year due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The event, which is set to begin on Jul 23, will be held without spectators due to the remaining risks of the virus.

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