A member of Uganda’s Olympic team has tested positive for coronavirus.
He was prevented from entering Japan, in the first detected infection among athletes arriving for the Tokyo Games, due to open in five weeks.
The athletes, who arrived on Saturday night at Tokyo’s Narita airport, were all fully vaccinated with AstraZeneca and had negative PCR tests before boarding, the Asahi newspaper reported, quoting an anonymous cabinet secretariat official.
The team member who tested positive was not identified, and is now staying at a government-designated facility