The 33 players, coaches, and staff all had vaccinations for the COVID-19 virus before leaving Australia and then tested negative for the virus after they arrived in Japan. They are staying at a hotel in Ota, 50 miles from Tokyo, and will be confined to one floor during their stay; they plan to move into the Tokyo Athletes Village on July 17.

The Olympics, already postponed from last year but still named the 2020 Summer Olympics, are scheduled to run July 24–August 9, even as the country remains under a state of emergency. That Japanese government plans to lift that on June 20 and, the next day, start vaccinating people at workplaces and universities. At the moment, only a small percentage of the Japanese population has received the COVID-19 vaccine.