#CoronavirusUpdate #Tokyo2020 2021/6/30🇯🇵Ruling party MP reveals one more positive case among the 80 passengers onboard the Qatar/JAL flight where two of the 🇺🇬#Uganda Olympic team members tested positive for #COVID19 upon arrival, with one of them contracting the #DeltaVariant.
https://twitter.com/satomasahisa/status/1410184752443707396
According to MP Sato, it was also revealed that the 🇺🇬Ugandan team was NOT kept in the bubble but mixed with other passenger in their economy/business class seating arrangements. They even shared the restrooms. The information was revealed in an internal foreign affairs meeting. 
From this revelation, it would appear that “safe & secure” Olympics is contingent on each national team’s (or its government’s) wealth to enable a ‘bubble’ arrangement onboard a commercial flight. Not every nation can afford that and particularly, low-income countries.
Wealthy countries (with high vaccination) may even be able to ‘charter’ a dedicated flight to enable a perfect bubble environment, but unfortunately, there are only few that has such resources. This means the actual safety & security is contingent on Japan’s tight border control.
But you already know how ‘tight’ Japan‘s border control is, which opens the way to this, as 🇳🇿Kiwi expert warned more than a month ago.
https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1397239791436144648
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