study<\/a> published last week in Eurosurveillance finds.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cThe results indicate that SARS-CoV-2 transmission into and within athletes and team officials was minimized by multiple infection prevention measures,\u201d said the authors, led by researchers at the Japan Institute for Health Security in Tokyo. \u201cThis conclusion is supported first by the low attack rates among both Olympic and Paralympic athletes and team officials.\u201d<\/p>\n
Less than 1% of participants infected<\/p>\n
For the 2020 Games, Japan enhanced its COVID-19 surveillance and mitigation in several ways. Country teams entering the nation needed to quarantine for 14 days. Following that, athletes were discouraged from interacting with people from outside of the venues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those involved in Olympics and Paralympics events underwent regular COVID-19 testing, which found those with COVID-19 infections early and allowed them to enter isolation early. Those attending Olympic and Paralympic venues wore masks and physically distanced from one another.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the Olympic Games, only 0.6% of athletes and team officials (65 of 11,400) tested positive for COVID-19\u2014the same rate as for the Paralympic Games (30\/4,800).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Low rates of infections, mainly affecting those from abroad shortly after their arrival in Japan indicate that the Games\u2019 unique infection-control measures effectively minimized SARS-CoV-2 transmission.<\/p>\n
Most people who tested positive (85\/95) did so upon arrival or within two weeks of entering Japan. Sixty-eight of those infected with COVID-19 had the Delta variant, 66 people had a strain that originated outside of Japan, and two had a domestic strain.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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