THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 15, 2021 at 19:08 JST
The newly opened Olympic Village in Tokyo’s Chuo Ward on July 13 (Hikaru Uchida)
An athlete of a foreign Olympic team tested positive for COVID-19, the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee announced on July 15.
The committee has refrained from disclosing the person's nationality, age and gender or other personal details on the grounds that doing so would “infringe on their privacy.”
Since the Olympic “playbook” guidelines for athletes and others was introduced at the beginning of July, it was the first case that a foreign athlete scheduled to directly enter the Olympic Village without heading for a host town tested positive for COVID-19.
The Cabinet Secretariat, which is in charge of athletes and staff who head for their host towns across Japan after entering the nation, has been announcing the nationalities of athletes that have tested positive and other information about them.
Members of Uganda's Olympic team tested positive at an airport quarantine station on June 19, as did members of Serbia's team on July 3.
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