Beijing Olympic organizers said on Sunday they had confirmed 2,586 cases of COVID-19 among sports-related personnel who entered China from January 4 to January 22, up from 171 athletes and team officials who visited in that period. There was no issue in between.
Final preparations are underway for the Winter Games amid a global surge in cases of the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant. Games are scheduled to take place from February 4 to February 20 inside a “closed loop” bubble that separates all event personnel from the public.
Organizers said 39 of the confirmed cases were tested at the airport and 33 inside the loop. The participants in the bubble are tested daily, with 336,421 PCR tests being conducted from January 4 to January 22.
All Games participants are required to have two negative PCR test results within 96 hours of their departure to China, and most are traveling on specially arranged charter flights.
Last week, organizers said tickets to the Olympics would not be sold to the general public due to COVID-19, and would instead be distributed to groups of people who had to take strict containment measures before, during and after attending events. Have to do
China has managed to contain domestic outbreaks of COVID-19 since it first emerged in the central city of Wuhan, and closed its borders to international arrivals.
On Sunday, Beijing’s city government introduced more measures to contain COVID-19 after detecting nine locally transmitted cases the previous day.
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