An additional 33 staff members or contractors who are Japanese residents working on the Games have tested positive. The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee confirmed Monday that a teenage alternate on the women’s gymnastics team had tested positive for the coronavirus while in training in Chiba prefecture outside Tokyo. The city of Inzai, where the team has been training, said in a statement that the gymnast tested positive Monday after entering Japan last week. The three people who tested positive inside the Olympic Village were from the South African soccer team, including two athletes and one official. The Associated Press reported that Ondřej Perušič’, a beach volleyball player competing for the Czech Republic, had also tested positive in the Olympic Village.

Source: bd News24 July 19, 2021 18:00 UTC