A foreign athlete at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan has been hospitalised with non-severe symptoms of COVID-19, a Japanese media outlet, Kyodo News, said on Thursday.
It is the first hospitalisation at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, which opened on Tuesday.
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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 per cent of coronavirus patients are hospitalised in Tokyo, and the low level of admissions has added to public frustration with the government’s COVID-19 response. (Reuters/NAN)
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