A Tale of Two Cities: In the ‘bubble’ and the Tokyo outside
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The positivity rate in Games-related tests is just 0.02%, said International Olympic Committee spokesperson Mark Adams. “This is the most tested community almost certainly anywhere in the world.” Quarantined Dutch athletes have found it “very distressing” to be confined to a “very small” area, not allowed to get fresh air, the team’s technical director, Maurits Hendriks, said.
Hand sanitizer is ubiquitous. At news conferences, officials scrub the microphone after each question.Outside, state of emergency Tokyo-style bears little resemblance to the clinical conditions in the bubble, or even to the ghost-town lockdowns imposed on such cities as London, New York and Sydney, with throngs of people still on the streets.
Tokyo’s COVID-19 infections began to spike shortly before the Olympics began, to a record 3,865 on Thursday, from less than 1,000 daily in mid-July, although serious cases and deaths have remained subdued. Given the multiple lockdowns, “everyone’s awareness has slowly been fading, little by little. I think people are starting to not take the state of emergency as seriously, and because of that there have been more cases of COVID-19 recently, so I am a bit worried.”
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