NARITA: A member of Uganda’s Olympic team has tested positive for the novel coronavirus upon arrival at Japan’s Narita International Airport, sources said Sunday.

The team of the African country was the second foreign Olympic delegation to arrive in Japan for the Tokyo Games since the one-year postponement was decided last year.

The member is the first positive case among all members of the two foreign Olympic teams, including one from Australia.

The Ugandan team, which has nine members including athletes, arrived at the airport near Tokyo on Saturday afternoon.

One of the nine was confirmed positive through a polymerase chain reaction test that was conducted because the member did not show a negative result in a regular antigen test, the sources said.

The nine members, all inoculated with British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC’s vaccine, had certificates of negative coronavirus test results, according to the sources.

The infected member will stay in a designated facility until the member tests negative. It is unknown whether the person has any symptoms.

JIJI Press