TOKYO (Reuters) — A foreign participant in the Paralympic Games in Japan has been hospitalized with non-severe symptoms of Covid-19, Kyodo News said on Thursday, citing the Games’ organizing committee.
It is the first hospitalization of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, which opened on Tuesday.
Hospitals in Japan treating Covid-19 patients have usually reserved beds for people showing severe symptoms.
The national government and the Tokyo Metropolitan government appealed on Monday to hospitals in the capital to accept more Covid-19 patients.
Less than 10% of coronavirus patients are hospitalized in Tokyo, and the low level of admissions has added to public frustration with the government’s Covid-19 response, undermining voter support for Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
A man wearing a protective mask, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, stands in front of the second Paralympic flame cauldron at Ariake Yume-no-Ohashi Bridge, a day after the official opening of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, in Tokyo, Japan on Aug. 25, 2021.
