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Tokyo Olympics: Athletes' village Covid-19 isolation bubble already 'broken'

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The isolation bubble system that Olympic organisers have set up at the Tokyo Games village to control Covid-19 is already broken, and there is a risk that infections could spread more widely from inside it, a prominent public health expert said on Tuesday.

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