More than 1,200 security guards have been withdrawn from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics because of a norovirus outbreak, organisers said today.
Out of the group, 41 suffered a sudden onset of vomiting and diarrhoea on Sunday.
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They were transferred to hospital and most were diagnosed with a norovirus infection.
Norovirus is highly contagious and can also spread through food or water contamination.
“The 1,200-odd people were pulled out from their duties,” an official of the Pyeongchang Olympic Organizing Committee told AFP . “They were replaced by some 900 military soldiers.”
Health authorities were investigating the origin of the virus, he said.
The security guards, all employees from a security company, had been accommodated at a youth training centre in Pyeongchang, separate from the athletes’ village.
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