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First case of coronavirus inside the Olympic Village in Japan

17/07/2021 GMT

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Six days before the Games begin, the first case of COVID-19 in the athletes' village

Six days before the Games begin, the first case of COVID-19 in the athletes' village.

Organisers of the Olympics say they've found the first case of coronavirus inside the athletes' village, just six days before the  Games open.  We have reaction from Tokyo.

Also, rescuers are continuing efforts to find survivors of floods in Germany and the Benelux countries which have left more than a hundred-and-twenty people dead.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Lina Khatib, director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at the Chatham House international affairs think tank in London; and Koichi Nakano, Professor of Political Science at Sophia University in Tokyo.

(Image:  Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee president Seiko Hashimoto attends confirms the first COVID-19 case in the Olympic Village. Credit: EPA)

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