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Tokyo Olympians To Be Tested "Every 96-120 Hours" During Games

Athletes "will need to provide a negative COVID-19 test taken less than 72 hours before arriving in Japan for the Olympics and will be tested 'every 96-120 hours' during the Games," according to Jack Tarrant of REUTERS. Current visitors to Japan "need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival but athletes and other key stakeholders arriving for the Games will be exempt from those restrictions." More than 15,000 athletes are "expected in Tokyo for the Olympics." A testing center "would be set up in the village for in-competition testing." Organizers also will be "encouraging athletes to spend less time in Tokyo than they usually would." Tokyo Organizing Committee CEO Toshiro Muto said, "After the Games are finished, we want the athletes to go back home as early as possible." Tarrant notes a "successful vaccine could make many of the COVID-19 countermeasures being discussed by Games' organisers obsolete but Muto stressed they were going ahead with or without a vaccine" (REUTERS, 12/2).

DRIVING UP THE PRICE TAG: KYODO NEWS cites sources as saying that while the Tokyo Games "were initially estimated to cost" around $12.8B, the organizers "now expect the postponement to drive up the total price tag by some" $1.91B. The sources added that an extra $957M is "expected to be spent on novel coronavirus countermeasures." Based on the interim report, the central and metropolitan governments, and the organizing committee "will begin discussions to determine how much of the additional burden each will shoulder" (KYODO NEWS, 12/2).

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