Athletes are expected to undergo daily Covid testing at this summer’s Tokyo Olympics in new rules set to be unveiled later this week.
But they are not expected to have to undergo a 14-day quarantine on arrival as previously mooted.
The IOC is set to unveil the new round of measures on Wednesday in their latest series of playbooks setting out what athletes and team officials can and can’t do at the Games.
Athletes will be ordered to stay within their own bubble on arrival in Japan for pre-event training. All will have to undergo two Covid tests in the 96 hours before arriving and another on arrival in the country.
The measures are the latest response by both the IOC and Tokyo officials amid growing scepticism over the Games among the Japanese population.
Tokyo is in the midst of a state of emergency declared on Friday until May 11 amid a surge of coronavirus cases.
In addition, the vaccine rollout in Japan has been particularly slow with just 1% of the population having been vaccinated just three months out from the Olympics.
