Such is the unease that Toyota, one of the Games’ major corporate sponsors, announced on Monday that it would not run Olympic-themed television commercials during them.
“There are several issues with these games that are proving difficult to understand,” the company’s chief communications officer, Jun Nagata, told reporters, according to the Associated Press.
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The three people who tested positive inside the Olympic Village were from the South African football team, including two athletes and an official. He was isolated in a separate building while an additional 21 people who came in close contact with him are staying in their rooms.
Tokyo organizing committee spokesman Masa Takaya said athletes who were in close contact with those who tested positive would be allowed to train if they otherwise comply with isolation restrictions. Athletes are tested daily and will be allowed to play if they test negative within six hours of competition.
Another six UK athletes and two Olympic staff members were also in isolation after they were informed they were sitting on their flight to Tokyo next to a man who tested positive for the coronavirus at the airport.
The Associated Press reported that Ondrej Peruzic, a beach volleyball player who competes for the Czech Republic, had also tested positive at the Olympic Village.
At a news conference over the weekend, the International Olympic Committee’s sporting director, Christophe Duby, said “there is no such thing as zero risk,” adding that through testing and rigorous contact tracing and quick isolation, the Olympic Village “is a COVID ” Will happen. -Safe environment but not Covid free.”
The Japanese public is concerned about the staging of the Olympics amid a slow rollout of vaccines and a recent rise in coronavirus cases in the capital. The number of daily cases has exceeded 1,000 for several days for the first time since mid-May. Tokyo is in a state of emergency. A poll by Kyodo News, a wire service released over the weekend, showed that 87 percent of those surveyed said they were concerned about hosting the Olympics during the pandemic.