At the Olympics: More corona cases than ever before

A total of 24 other people tested positive in the area around the games. The organizers announced this on Thursday. This many cases have not been recorded in one day since recording began on July 1st. The IOC, meanwhile, defended its corona protection concept. The number of positive tests surrounding the competitions in Japan rose to 193. A total of 20 athletes have been infected with the coronavirus so far. The organizers are not publishing the names of those affected. Two Olympic cases are currently being treated in hospital, none of them serious. The capital Tokyo reported a new high of 3.865 new infections. The previous day there were 24 cases within 3.177 hours. The IOC defended its Corona concept. As far as he was aware, no infection passed from those involved in the Summer Games to the Japanese population, said IOC spokesman Mark Adams. So far, 310.000 tests have been carried out during the games, only a small fraction of them were positive. Authorities sound the alarm An important coronavirus advisor to the Japanese government, Shigeru Omi, sees the Olympic Games as a factor in the increase in infections in addition to the delta variant of the virus and the holiday season. In view of the rapidly increasing number of infections, he warned that the health system would be overloaded. “If crisis awareness is not shared, the pressure on the health system will sooner or later become even more serious,” said the doctor Omi on Thursday at a committee meeting in parliament. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said the rise in infections had nothing to do with the Olympics. The Japanese psychology professor Harada Takayuki from the University of Tsukuba told the national television broadcaster NHK that in the wake of the happy Olympic atmosphere and the successes of the Japanese athletes, many people are no longer taking the coronavirus so seriously. Nationwide, as a result of the rapid spread of the Delta variant, the number of new infections rose above the 9.000 case mark for the first time in one day to a total of 9.576. Koike called on younger citizens to get vaccinated, stay at home and follow the Corona measures. “Young people’s activities are key (to containing infections).”

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At the Olympics: More corona cases than ever before

In parallel to the sharp rise in Corona numbers in Tokyo, a new daily high of positive cases was also recorded at the Olympic Games.

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