Australia's entire athletics team for the Tokyo Olympics was quarantined in their rooms on Saturday at their pre-Games training camp in Cairns following a COVID-19 scare.
An inconclusive test had been returned by an unnamed official who travelled from Melbourne but subsequent tests have so far been negative, the Australian Olympic Committee confirmed on Sunday.
"My understanding is applied an abundance of caution and said to athletes: 'Right, just until we get this sorted out everyone is going to stay in their rooms,'" said David Hughes, the AOC's chief medical officer.
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