On Sunday, local organizers said that Rio de Janeiro's Olympic venues are going to be checked every day during the games in a bid to stop the spread of a mosquito-borne virus related to an uncommon birth defect. The condition can also result into paralysis.

Brazil is facing Zika virus outbreak, which as per health officials here could be behind a rise in microcephaly cases, wherein infants take birth with unusually tiny heads, and the paralysis-causing Guillain-Barre syndrome.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended expectant women to avoid travel to Brazil and 21 other Zika outbreaks facing countries.

The Rio 2016 local organizing committee mentioned that as the August 5-21 games are going to be held in the southern hemisphere winter, the dry season in Brazil, the mosquito population is going to be quite smaller.

Whatever the case will be, teams will clean Rio's Olympic and Paralympic areas every day, seeking stagnant waters that are the breeding grounds for the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spread Zika, and also chikungunya and dengue.

The committee said in a statement, “Rio 2016 will continue to monitor the issue closely and follow guidance from the Brazilian Ministry of Health”.

The Zika outbreak is the most recent issue that is going to hit South America's first Olympics, as Brazil is fighting with its deepest recession in generations, and a huge corruption investigation that has trapped top politicians and some of the most prominent businessmen in the country.

Rio organizers have decided to cut nearly $500 million in expenses, several million tickets remained unsold, and venues for sailing, rowing and canoeing are common with high virus levels associated with the outdate sewage treatment system in Rio.