DEVELOPING: Serious Covid-19 cases are surging in Tokyo while the Olympics are going on, the city's governor says, as the Japanese capital reports a record number of new infections.
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organizing committee reported earlier Tuesday that two of the seven people linked to the Olympics who recently tested positive were athletes. That raises the number of confirmed Olympics-related Covid cases to 155, officials said. The Tokyo Olympics, which were delayed a year by the Covid-19 crisis, are set to run until August 10., who at 13 years old became one of the youngest gold medal winners ever at an Olympic games.The Japanese government, which pushed ahead with the GamesSo far, Japanese athletes have won 13 medals, including eight gold medals, according to
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