The Olympic Games during the coronavirus pandemic are a huge organizational challenge. Sometimes it causes confusion as well, as she had learned very painfully. There are many indications, however, that the stringent Chinese restrictions are having the appropriate effect.
The first such day in Beijing. Zero incidents of arrivals
According to the New York Times, on Monday 133 more people came to Beijing and all of them tested negative for COVID-19. This is the first such day in the Chinese capital since Olympic delegations began to arrive there.
Anyone arriving at Beijing Airport must undergo a PCR test and then isolate themselves in a hotel room until receiving the test result a few hours later. Those who test negative are free to move around in the closed Olympic bubble, which limits athletes and others involved in the games to designated hotels and venues. Those who test positive find themselves isolated. This is to stop the spread of the virus to the rest of China, which has tried to eradicate COVID from the general population.
All Olympics participants undergo a PCR test every day. Of the 70,524 tests conducted on Monday in the Beijing bubble, only six tested positive, including five athletes and team members.
This is a sign that extensive efforts to prevent an epidemic at the Olympics are paying off, even though a handful of famous athletes have been forced into isolation. Previously, one of them was Natalia Maliszewska, now it has Vincent Zhou, an American figure skater who had to withdraw from Tuesday’s short program. In Monday’s test his result was positive.
People who test positive but do not require treatment must self-isolate in hotel rooms until they have registered two negative tests in a row.
Source: Sport
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