Tokyo Olympics / Organizers in tension about Coronavirus, are collecting a lot of spit everyday

Tokyo: One milliliter of spit in a vial, 30,000 vials daily and more than half a million milliliters of spit by the end of the Olympics. These are some figures of daily tests to control the cases of Coronavirus between the Tokyo Olympics.Every day during the Tokyo Olympics, about 30,000 people are giving sputum samples in tiny plastic vials that are about one milliliter. These include people coming from all over the world to participate in the games. By the end of the Olympics on August 8, 5 lakh milliliters of sputum will be stored in about 5 lakh vials.

different method of corona test

This sputum is being deposited in tubes and kept with barcodes. Those whose results are in doubt, they are re-examined. These tests are being done at a center called 'Fever Clinic' which also takes care of people living in quarantine. Here the test is not being done by putting a stick in the nose which is another popular method of corona test.

how much does a test cost

In the Tokyo Olympics, players, team officials, media and sports people are being screened for free, while it costs about 10,000 yen, or a hundred dollars. So far 220 people related to sports have been found positive, of which 23 are players.