Tokyo 2020: Two Mexico baseball team members test positive for COVID-19

The athletes, Hector Velazquez and Sammy Solis, who tested positive on July 18, were isolated, as were all team members pending results of more tests.

Mexico plays its first Olympic tournament game on July 30 against the Dominican Republic in Yokohama. (Representative Photo)

Two members of Mexico's Olympic baseball team tested positive for COVID-19 at the team hotel before its departure for the Tokyo Olympics, the federation said.

The athletes, Hector Velazquez and Sammy Solis, who tested positive on July 18, were isolated, as were all team members pending results of more tests, it said.

"It was decided to isolate the two players immediately in their rooms of the national team hotel, as well as all the players and team coaching staff, until the medical laboratory delivers the PCR tests," it said in a statement.

"All the protocols established by the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM) will be followed to safeguard the health of all the members of the national baseball team that will participate in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games."

Mexico plays its first Olympic tournament game on July 30 against the Dominican Republic in Yokohama.

Several dozen Olympics-related positive cases has been recorded since athletes and officials started gathering in its own countries for the Games or after arriving in Japan.

There has been 58 positive cases of Olympics-linked athletes, staff or officials recorded in Japan this month.