COVID-19 cases at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics

Cases of COVID-19 at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, are part of a cluster of SARS-CoV-2 infections within the COVID-19 pandemic in Tokyo that began in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Village in July 2021, prior to the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics on 23 July 2021. The Olympics ended on 8 August 2021 before the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Summer Paralympics started on 24 August 2021. The Paralympics ended on 5 September 2021 before the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China started a few months later.

Cases of COVID-19 at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Paralympics
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationHarumi Olympic Village, Tokyo, Japan
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China
First reported2 July 2021
Index case2 July 2021
Arrival date2 July 2021 (2021-07-02)
Confirmed cases788
Hospitalized cases3
Deaths
0
Government website
COVID-19 Positive Case List

There have been 788 cases detected and reported by the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee between 1 July and 8 September 2021, with 66 additional cases being detected among Games personnel before that date after the Committee started recording them at an unknown date. The cases have sparked concerns prior to the games. The bubble surrounding the Olympic Village has been described as having been broken after the first case occurred there in mid-July.

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