COVID-19 infection risk assessment and management at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games: A scoping review

• Published in: Journal of infection and public health Vol. 17; pp. 18 - 26
• Main Authors: Murakami, Michio, Fujii, Kenkichi, Naito, Wataru, Kamo, Masashi, Kitajima, Masaaki, Yasutaka, Tetsuo, Imoto, Seiya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2024; The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences; Elsevier
• Subjects: COVID-19; Humans; Mass gatherings; Risk Assessment; Risk management; Sports; Tokyo - epidemiology; Tokyo 2020 Olympic Paralympic Games; Tokyo; COVID-19; Tokyo 2020 Olympic Paralympic Games; Mass gatherings; Risk management; Risk assessment
• ISSN: 1876-0341; 1876-035X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jiph.2023.03.025

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games was one of the largest international mass-gathering events held after the beginning of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this scoping review, we extracted papers discussing COVID-19 risk assessment or management at the Tokyo 2020 Games to determine the nature of studies that were conducted. Among the 75 papers obtained from two search engines (PubMed and ScienceDirect) and four papers collected from hand-searches, 30 papers were extracted. Only eight papers performed both COVID-19 prior risk assessment and quantitative evaluation of effectiveness measures, highlighting the importance of rapid, solution-focused risk assessment. Furthermore, this review revealed that the findings regarding the spread of COVID-19 infection to citizens in the host country were inconsistent depending on the assessment methods and that assessments of the spread of infection outside the host country were lacking.