Tokyo Olympic Village Workers Test Positive for COVID Just 16 Days Out From Opening Ceremony

Tokyo Olympic Village Workers Test Positive for COVID Just 16 Days Out From Opening Ceremony
A man walks past a banner for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, on May 11, 2021. Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo
Tom Ozimek
Updated:
Olympic organizers announced that two workers at the Olympic Village in Tokyo have tested positive for COVID-19, just over two weeks out from the opening ceremony and about a week before the village opens to athletes, according to the Tokyo Shimbun news outlet.
The village workers who tested positive last week had been dining with two other Olympics staff members, in violation of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee’s pandemic countermeasures, according to Australia’s ABC.
Tom Ozimek
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Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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