- Title: Czech beach volleyball player tests positive for COVID-19 in Athletes' Village
- Date: 19th July 2021
- Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (JULY 19, 2021) (REUTERS) ATHLETES' OLYMPIC VILLAGE BUILDINGS ENTRANCE TO VILLAGE
- Embargoed: 2nd August 2021 07:45
- Keywords: COVID-19 Olympic Games Olympic Village Tokyo 2020 athletes coronavirus
- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- City: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Olympics,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA001EMIAB0N
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- Story Text:Czech beach volleyball player Ondrej Perusic has returned a positive COVID-19 test at the Games Village in Tokyo, the country's Olympic Committee said on Monday (July 19).
On Saturday, the team had said a staff member had tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in Tokyo on a charter flight from Prague.
"Unfortunately, beach volleyball player Ondrej Perusic has a positive finding from a sample taken during daily testing in the Olympic village on Sunday," Martin Doktor, sports director of the Czech Olympic Committee, said in a statement.
"It is still fresh information and everything is evolving quickly. We are solving details, including the sport impact."
Perusic, 26, was due to play his first match on July 26, which the team said was now unlikely due to isolation requirements.
Elsewhere, a female gymnast from the United States has tested positive for the coronavirus, Kyodo news agency reported, citing the city hosting the athlete.
The city of Inzai in Chiba Prefecture didn't disclose the name of the athlete who is in her teens, according to Kyodo.
Meanwhile athletes from around the world were continuing to settling into the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Athletes' village on Monday, with team flags already showing their presence.
Postponed for a year due to the global pandemic, the Games are being held mostly without spectators and under tight quarantine rules. Most athletes are starting to arrive for the Olympics, which run from July 23 through Aug. 8.
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