A first part of the Ugandan delegation, which arrived in Tokyo for the Olympics on June 19, 2021, was placed in quarantine after a positive fall of Covid-19, the Japanese authorities announced on June 22. This is the first positive case of a participant in the Olympics (July 23 – August 8) when the Australian softball team was the first foreign delegation to arrive in Japan on June 1.
This is unlikely to reassure the Japanese, who are still reluctant to hold the Tokyo Olympics from July 23 to August 8. When the delegations start to seep into Japan, one has been placed in quarantine after a first positive case of Covid-19. This is the Ugandan team, which landed at Narita Airport on June 19.
In quarantine until July 3
It was finally isolated, Japanese local authorities announced on June 21. The eight members of the Ugandan team, who accompanied a coach who tested positive when he stepped off the plane on Saturday, were declared contact cases and will be placed in quarantine until July 3, they told AFP.
The other eight members first traveled by bus to their host city of Izumisano on Sunday in Osaka Prefecture in western Japan. “But our local medical officials interviewed the eight members and decided that they were contact cases by the person who tested positive,” an official from the city of Izumisano told AFP. “We are now asking them to stay at their hotel until July 3,” he added, adding that the city would study the possibility of letting them train outdoors near the hotel.
Ugandan authorities are trying to calm down
On the Ugandan side, we wanted to be reassuring. “Members of the Ugandan team that left had all received their two vaccines and had undergone two PCR tests in the last 96 hours and gave negative results,” tweeted Donald Rukare, head of the Ugandan Olympic Committee.
Currently, about 20 Ugandan athletes have secured their place at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, mainly in athletics and boxing.
According to the latest estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO), almost 71,500 cases have been identified in Uganda and 660 people have died there from Covid-19.
With AFP,
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