Beijing Olympics says growing COVID cases are “within controllable range“
(VOVWORLD) - The COVID-19 situation at the Beijing Winter Olympics is within the "expected controllable range", despite increasing positive cases being detected, a senior official at China's Olympics Pandemic Prevention and Control Office said on Tuesday.
 Medical personnel wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) sit rink-side as Czech ice hockey team trains at the National Indoor Stadium ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, February 1, 2022. (Photo: REUTERS/David W Cerny) |
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has reported 200 COVID cases since January 23 among airport arrivals and those in the Games "closed loop" bubble that separates all event personnel, including athletes, from the public.
Huang Chun, deputy director general of the committee's Pandemic Prevention and Control Office said at a press briefing that rising cases were also a result of more effective and accurate COVID detection techniques by customs.
Games organisers reported a total of 24 new COVID cases among Games-related personnel on January 31, of which 16 were athletes.