during the summer Olympics in Tokyo last year.
The winter games won't require athletes to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but those who are unvaccinated will have to quarantine for 21 days when they arrive in Beijing. The IOC alsoto prevent the spread of COVID during the competition, such as a"closed-loop" system that limits participants to certain Olympics-related areas and other permitted locations and isolates them from China's general public.
The winter Olympic Games will take place from Feb. 4-20, and the winter Paralympic Games will occur from March 4-13. China has been working to quell a series of COVID outbreaks in the weeks before the games, recently putting more than 20 million people across the country in some form of lockdown, the
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