Genting Snow Park, a competition venue for Snowboarding and Freestyle Skiing during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, is seen in Beijing, China on Jan 15, 2022.BEIJING - Tickets for the Winter Olympics set to begin on Feb 4 will be distributed to "targeted" groups of people and will not be sold to the general public, the organising committee said on Monday , in the latest setback to the Games inflicted by Covid-19.
It cited the "severe and complex" Covid-19 situation and the need to protect the safety of Olympics personnel and spectators in Monday's announcement. China, which has largely managed to curb local Covid-19 infections, is scrambling to prevent the spread of scattered outbreaks of the highly-infectious Omicron variant just as the busy Lunar New Year travel period begins.
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