The report focuses on athletes in the Olympic Village during the Olympic and Paralympic Games
of COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, will become clear as the Games play out over the next month.
Health officials at the airport conducted 54,520 SARS-CoV-2 saliva tests, and 55 people tested positive, which was confirmed by an additional PCR test using a nasopharyngeal swab. These individuals were isolated in a designated facility until they tested negative.I’m a Health Writer Who Covers the Olympics. Here’s What I Thought of the Tokyo Games Bubble
Cases increased steadily during the Games; there were 70 positive tests on opening day, which increased to a peak of 142 on day five before decreasing in the following days. Will Tokyo’s experience translate to Beijing during the 2022 Winter Games, which start on Feb. 4? Beijing officials are dealing with a very different virus than the one that stalked the Tokyo Olympics.than Delta, which means the number of infections has skyrocketed in stunning fashion. Unlike in Tokyo, however, athletes, coaches, and delegations arriving in Beijing must be vaccinated, or provide an approved medical exemption that requires them to quarantine for 21 days upon arriving in the city.
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