Tokyo Organizing Committee Relaxes Covid Requirement For Indian Athletes | Tokyo Olympic Games News
Only 96 and 72 hour pre-departure test reports need to be uploaded
NEW DELHI: Indian athletes traveling to Tokyo for the Olympics will only have to download the negative RT-PCR test reports for Covid-19 for 96 hours and 72 hours before they leave here for the Games, on deputy head of mission of the delegation, Dr Prem Verma, told TOI on Thursday. These two reports must be obtained from accredited diagnostic centers and uploaded in an approved format as directed by the Games Organizing Committee (OC). These accredited laboratories were suggested by the CO in its Tokyo 2020 Playbook and are linked to the embassies and consular offices of the Japanese Embassy in India.
For the remainder of the day, athletes and coaching staff are not required to upload a status report of their tests to the OC health monitoring app. Athletes can get tested at one of the diagnostic centers identified by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in the locations where they are currently based or train at the regional centers of the Sports Authority of India (SAI). A request for approval of these laboratories at the earliest was filed with the CO on Wednesday. Athletes are not required to download or carry reports of these RT-PCR tests, not even for 48 hours before the start, but have been instructed by Verma to keep a physical file with themselves.
“Previously, it was mandatory that 14 days before leaving for Tokyo, athletes had to upload daily health records to the mobile app. Now the upload period has been reduced to just seven days. This means you will have to monitor your health for 14 days but must download data for seven days. The Covid test report obtained for 96 hours and 72 hours before departure must be compulsorily uploaded to the health reports app. Once an athlete has uploaded , it will reach the immigration office automatically and a QR code will be generated on the athletes’ smartphone. This QR code will be verified at immigration when the athletes show up at the airport. After passing immigration, another series of customs related questions will need to be answered. After answering them another QR code will be generated. Athletes will show it to customs and if everything is clear they will will be on board the flight, â€Verma explained.
According to Verma, a total of 13 private labs have been identified across India with the exception of those notified by the OC for mandatory 96 hours and 72 hours of Covid testing. “I wrote an email to the CO yesterday where I requested the approval of two other laboratories in Patiala, Sonepat, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad and Kolkata and one in Guwahati, Lucknow, Nagpur and Chennai,” informed Verma, the Covid Liaison Officer (CLO) for the Indian contingent. All of these laboratories are accredited with the National Health Authority (NHA) and are recognized by the government.
As part of the Japanese government’s Covid control measures, the OC had identified 11 participating countries, including India, whose athletes, coaches and support staff had been asked to undergo a three-day isolation period at the Games Village, in addition to undertaking daily Covid- 19 tests for a week before their departure for Tokyo and not physically interacting with members of the contingent from other countries than their own for three days after registration in the village .
Verma also informed that for athletes not wearing smartphones, there is a separate provision to fill out the spreadsheet with details of their Covid-19 tests for the last seven days prior to departure. “In such cases, athletes will monitor their health for seven days and complete the spreadsheet with details of their Covid-19 tests. They will inform the Covid Liaison Officer of their relevant federations who will upload the spreadsheet to the Tokyo 2020 web portal. ”
“There is one more thing to add that ISC and IOA officials have discussed and asked relevant test labs to take samples from athletes for Covid testing in places where they stay or undergo a This agreement has already been made with most of the laboratories. This way we can ensure the safety of our athletes without breaking the bio-bubble or exposing them to unnecessary risk of exposure, “he added. .
NEW DELHI: Indian athletes traveling to Tokyo for the Olympics will only have to download the negative RT-PCR test reports for Covid-19 for 96 hours and 72 hours before they leave here for the Games, on deputy head of mission of the delegation, Dr Prem Verma, told TOI on Thursday. These two reports must be obtained from accredited diagnostic centers and uploaded in an approved format as directed by the Games Organizing Committee (OC). These accredited laboratories were suggested by the CO in its Tokyo 2020 Playbook and are linked to the embassies and consular offices of the Japanese Embassy in India.
For the remainder of the day, athletes and coaching staff are not required to upload a status report of their tests to the OC health monitoring app. Athletes can get tested at one of the diagnostic centers identified by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in the locations where they are currently based or train at the regional centers of the Sports Authority of India (SAI). A request for approval of these laboratories at the earliest was filed with the CO on Wednesday. Athletes are not required to download or carry reports of these RT-PCR tests, not even for 48 hours before the start, but have been instructed by Verma to keep a physical file with themselves.
“Previously, it was mandatory that 14 days before leaving for Tokyo, athletes had to upload daily health records to the mobile app. Now the upload period has been reduced to just seven days. This means you will have to monitor your health for 14 days but must download data for seven days. The Covid test report obtained for 96 hours and 72 hours before departure must be compulsorily uploaded to the health reports app. Once an athlete has uploaded , it will reach the immigration office automatically and a QR code will be generated on the athletes’ smartphone. This QR code will be verified at immigration when the athletes show up at the airport. After passing immigration, another series of customs related questions will need to be answered. After answering them another QR code will be generated. Athletes will show it to customs and if everything is clear they will will be on board the flight, â€Verma explained.
According to Verma, a total of 13 private labs have been identified across India with the exception of those notified by the OC for mandatory 96 hours and 72 hours of Covid testing. “I wrote an email to the CO yesterday where I requested the approval of two other laboratories in Patiala, Sonepat, Delhi, Pune, Hyderabad and Kolkata and one in Guwahati, Lucknow, Nagpur and Chennai,” informed Verma, the Covid Liaison Officer (CLO) for the Indian contingent. All of these laboratories are accredited with the National Health Authority (NHA) and are recognized by the government.
As part of the Japanese government’s Covid control measures, the OC had identified 11 participating countries, including India, whose athletes, coaches and support staff had been asked to undergo a three-day isolation period at the Games Village, in addition to undertaking daily Covid- 19 tests for a week before their departure for Tokyo and not physically interacting with members of the contingent from other countries than their own for three days after registration in the village .
Verma also informed that for athletes not wearing smartphones, there is a separate provision to fill out the spreadsheet with details of their Covid-19 tests for the last seven days prior to departure. “In such cases, athletes will monitor their health for seven days and complete the spreadsheet with details of their Covid-19 tests. They will inform the Covid Liaison Officer of their relevant federations who will upload the spreadsheet to the Tokyo 2020 web portal. ”
“There is one more thing to add that ISC and IOA officials have discussed and asked relevant test labs to take samples from athletes for Covid testing in places where they stay or undergo a This agreement has already been made with most of the laboratories. This way we can ensure the safety of our athletes without breaking the bio-bubble or exposing them to unnecessary risk of exposure, “he added. .