Three athletes positive for COVID-19 inside Beijing Olympic bubble

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BEIJING: Three athletes attending training events for the Beijing Winter Olympics have tested positive for COVID-19, Chinese officials said Thursday (Nov 18), with the country on high alert against the coronavirus ahead of the Games. Beijing 2022 organisers have left nothing to chance with the games set to

One of the athletes, a foreign luger, tested positive at the airport when entering the country and was sent to a quarantine hotel along with another infected teammate as they had no symptoms, officials said last week.

The latest patient is asymptomatic and has also been transferred to a quarantine facility for"medical observation", Zhao said at a press conference. City authorities this week imposed strict new rules on inbound travellers, requiring all visitors to Beijing to show a negative COVID-19 test result from the past 48 hours and cancelling flights from higher risk areas within the country.

The Olympics will test the country's ability to ward off the pandemic, with organisers promising nearly empty stadiums and banning spectators from outside China.

 

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