Norovirus outbreak at Winter Olympics sees 86 people taken ill

No athletes have been affected.

Eighty-six cases of norovirus have been confirmed among personnel working at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, the Korean Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.

Centre director Kim Hyun-jun said there were 58 cases at the Odaesan Youth Centre, which is housing 1,200 security personnel who have been quarantined. Nine hundred military personnel were called in to address a shortfall in security as a result.